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[ILUG] making machine beep

[ILUG] making machine beep

Liam Bedford lbedford at netnoteinc.com
Tue May 21 11:54:09 IST 2002


On Tue, 21 May 2002 11:51:49 +0100 (BST)
James Cooper <jac1 at student.cs.ucc.ie> spouted:

> Hi,
> ANyone know how i can make my machine beep a couple of times
> whenever anyone tries to 'talk' to me, especially when I am
> using a different terminal to the one they are trying to
> talk to me on.
> No jokes please!
> 
you mean as in a talk request?

talkd does the work, so I'm not sure. I thought you normally got a beep?
Make sure your terminal supports beeping, and has it turned on (xterm
has a visual bell).

L.
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