Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:10:16 -0000 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "'cao@bus.net'" <cao@bus.net> Subject: RE: /dev/speaker Message-ID: <014CB6ADC0BCD0118B1B006097827D5B022D1B@exchange>
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Chuck O'Donnell wrote:
>Does anyone know a good way to beep the speaker from a CGI script?
>
>I would rather not change permissions of /dev/speaker or use a setuid
>script (as when using open("/dev/speaker", O_WRONLY, 0)). Just in case
it
>matters, the script is written in C.
>
>I am not subscribed to this list so please send responses directly.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Chuck O'Donnell
Just send a BEL character (ASCII 7) to stdout. eg.
printf("\x07"); (in C)
or
cout << (char)7; (in C++)
should work just fine.
Jeff Bond.
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