Hello, listers! Some of you have asked previously whether it is possible to have some sort of beep after certain command exits or certain task terminates. Yesterday I was playing around with Linux with another friend of mine, Luke Davis, who is yet another Linux user from Philadelphia. Accidentally, we recalled that Unix allows one to specify several commands on a single command line by dividing these commands with a semicolon. So, for instance, to run pine after your lynx exits you could enter: lynx; pine <ENTER> The Pine would fire up as soon as you quit Lynx. that opens a lot of interesting possibilities for providing temporary sound solutions to indicate termination of a background task or any other event. You could either run `play' command with your beloved .wav file on the command line or you could create a very short script called beep and exploit it. Say, we have a file called beep_when_you_re_done.wav and you'd like to know when your kernel finishes compiling. You might enter: make bzImage output.txt 2>&1 &; play beep_when_you_re_done.wav Now you can safely switch to another console and do other things. When "make bzImage" is finished, it will play the file. Hope this can help someone. Regards, Victor
