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RE: [TCLUG:2089] default beep



Neal, I think you're right.  setterm changes at least the beeps that your
shell generates... like when you tab in bash or backspace on an empty line.

Carlos

>It's been a while since I've messed with it, but I thought that the beeps
>were done through some sort of system call (sorry, don't remember which and
>man isn't finding it, but it was something simple like "beep"), where the
>parameters you pass are the frequency (pitch) of the speaker and the
>duration of the beep. If this is the case, I wouldn't think that there would
>be any environment variables that you could set to change it unless they
>override the application's call parameters...
>
>Neal
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John R Sheets [mailto:dusk@smsi-roman.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 11:15 AM
>> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
>> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:2089] default beep
>>
>>
>> Carlos Sabo wrote:
>>
>> > setterm can change some beeps.  It has a switch for beep
>> length and pitch.
>> > Set the length to zero.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll try that when I get home.
>>
>> "Robert A. Hayden" wrote:
>>
>> > Open the computer and disconnect the speaker :-)
>>
>> Ha ha.  Hopefully it won't come to that.  I do like the beep
>> it makes when
>> the BIOS POST is done.  It reminds me to sprint across the
>> room and respond
>> to the boot: prompt before it falls into Windows (used by the
>> rest of the
>> household).
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
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