How do I make my program beep.

Rob Carriere rob at baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu
Tue Jun 12 08:28:04 AEST 1990


In article <16844 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
writes: 
[beeping on the terminal]
>Using stderr is probably best.  The user could have redirected the error
>output away from the terminal, but if so, it's very possible that he doesn't
>want the beep on the terminal either.

Thank you.  I have been irritated by more than one program that tried to
decide for me what I wanted.

If your user has directed your output to files, it means she doesn't want to
hear from you.

SR
"Just run perfmon on a SUN under X11 and tell me how you like _that_"
(be prepared to reboot!)
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