Re: [TCLUG:1420] how do I make a beep?

[sos@skypoint.com (Steve Siegfried)]

Andrew McCulloh wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com> writes:
> 
>     Bob> Quoting Andrew McCulloh (mcculloh@2z.net):
>     >> There are more direct ways to do this. The "real" unix way is
>     >> to write a program that reads the utmp file. Have a look at the
>     >> utmp(5) and getutent(3) man pages for info on how to get
>     >> information out of utmp. A copy of stevens' Advanced Progamming
>     >> the UNIX Environment will come in handy if you want to send
>     >> signals to other peoples tty's.
> 
>     Bob> The above is this "Microsoft" or "Windows" way. Why re-invent
>     Bob> the wheel? Use the tools that are at hand and the simplest
>     Bob> solution.
> 
>     Bob> From the posting you can tell the individual is not a systems
>     Bob> program, why have them jump into signal handling, ptys, slave
>     Bob> ptys and the works? Sheesh...
> 
> Hey now, that's not very pleasant. Sure there are many ways to do
> this. I personally don't recommend the utmp method unless you are
> willing to sit down w/ gcc, read lots of man pages, and become best
> friends with the debugger. But to each their own, the beauty of unix
> vs. widows is that there is more than one way to do things. And, if you 
> want to learn more about the system, you can dig as deep as you like.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> p.s. the simplest way to do this involves a couple line shell script
> that calls who & cut or awk...

And 3 lines of C is how many lines too many?

	> SOS:src=> cat beep.c
	> #include <stdio.h>
	> main ()
	> {printf("\a");}
	> SOS:src=> cc -o a.out beep.c
	> SOS:src=> ./a.out
	> SOS:src=> 

-sos