There's probably an easier way than this, but you could use perl to fork() the bplay processes, so they don't block.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a procmail newb. I've written a recipie to play a WAV when a > message arrives. It works, it sounds nice, but it's synchronous: > > :0 c > * ^X-Mailing-List:.*lists.debian.org* > | /usr/bin/bplay /x/x/click_x.wav > > Since this WAV takes ~1 sec to play, procmail blocks 1 sec per message. > It ends up taking a long time with a bunch of messages. > > Is there any way I can make the clicks "overlap" with multiple messages > (cl-cl-cl-cl-click vs click.pause.click.pause.click.pause.click) and the > whole process to run asynchronously to procmail? > > Thanks > -Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
