Re: [Cooker] New package request: beep (PC speaker)

2000-09-14 Thread Geoffrey Lee
Yo, it allows you to play tones with the PC speaker. Great for including in shell scripts or turning your dual-processor machine into an alarm clock. :) http://www.johnath.com/beep/ It's GPLed and small. Needs permission to write to /dev/console; recommend solution is to chgrp audio

Re: [Cooker] New package request: beep (PC speaker)

2000-09-14 Thread Graham Percival
Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it, Geoffrey Lee? http://www.johnath.com/beep/ It's GPLed and small. Needs permission to write to /dev/console; recommend solution is to chgrp audio /usr/bin/bell ; chmod 4750 usr/bin/bell . Sorry I don't know how to

[Cooker] New package request: beep (PC speaker)

2000-09-13 Thread Graham Percival
Maybe it's a bit too late for this, but I just found a really useful utility; it allows you to play tones with the PC speaker. Great for including in shell scripts or turning your dual-processor machine into an alarm clock. :) http://www.johnath.com/beep/ It's GPLed and small. Needs