From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 13 06:33:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29206 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 06:33:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29183 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 06:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA11780; Wed, 13 May 1998 15:34:13 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980513153412.16664@cons.org> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:34:13 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: Thomas Gellekum , Sue Blake Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html References: <19980513182328.57620@welearn.com.au> <19980513195232.16585@welearn.com.au> <8767jacu2m.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <8767jacu2m.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>; from Thomas Gellekum on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 01:02:25PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <8767jacu2m.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>, Thomas Gellekum wrote: > Sue Blake writes: > > > > Although, of course, the correct way to beep from an sh file is > > > to use `tput bl`. > > > > Jeez, no matter what the subject, someone comes up with a command I've > > never heard of :-) OK, it works great but how come the man page doesn't > > mention it? > > You're reading the wrong man page. From termcap(5): > > String TCap Description > Variables Code > back_tab bt back tab (P) > bell bl audible signal (bell) (P) Or using the wrong OS. NetBSD doesn't have it, so I would recoomend against this command for portable shell scripts. {bash|ksh} -c "echo -e '\a'" Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message