Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:58:13 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Edwin Goei cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Beep or playing a sound [User's Guide alert] In-Reply-To: <405BCC32.5050006@sun.com> Message-ID: References: <405B8780.9030904@sun.com> <405BCC32.5050006@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Edwin Goei wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > The ^G character will work in an xterm or rxvt running under X11. > > You're right, I wasn't thinking clearly when I wrote the email, sorry. > > > Oh well, there's always 'cat `cygpath -W`/Media/ding.wav > /dev/dsp'. ;-) > > Just what I wanted. Thanks. Is there any documentation on /dev/dsp? I > did a google search and didn't find anything. > > -Edwin Edwin, There should be quite a few documents on the net describing /dev/dsp on Linux (try putting /dev/dsp in quotes when Googling). It's a relatively new implementation in Cygwin, however, and apparently wasn't around when was written... It should, most likely, be added. FYI, /dev/dsp is a.k.a /dev/sound and /dev/audio. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/