Console beep function?

=?unknown-8bit?Q?S=EAr=EAciya_Kurdistan=EE?= sereciya at kurdistan.ath.cx
Sun Apr 13 13:31:51 PDT 2003


On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:01:44AM -0400, Wade Majors wrote:
> >What is the closest thing to a beep function for the system console on
> >FreeBSD?  I have a program I want to port from Windows that beeps
> >intermittently at various frequencies, and it appears that there's no 
> >direct
> >equivalent of the Windows functions for making noise.  Suggestions?  It 
> >will
> >only be run on the console, so it doesn't have to work for remote terminals
> >or anything.

  I'm attaching some sample "beep" scripts; let me know how they work out ;)

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