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March 1999, Week 2

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Mike Hornsby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mike Hornsby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:06:47 -0500
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Oh, be careful, this could potentially have unforeseen !problems!. I know of
at least one system administrator who had a PC set up in his bedroom and a
batch job ended and sent such a message with associated noises and
interrupted a procreate process. Thus actual physical harm and untold fall
out could result.

oops, somehow the enforcehumor = fridak got set to off

Have a great week

Mike Hornsby
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>> > How do you do any of the following:
>> >
>> > 1. Send a "beep" from a stream job to the speaker on !hpuser's PC.
>
>Do a TELL to the session (or the user.account) which contains a ^G (ascii
7).
>Control-G is not stripped out of TELL messages and successfully sends a
beep
>to the speaker on the receiving terminal/terminal emulator.  Using SLS as
we
>do, it's simple to send the beep just to the correct session
>
>JSNum JSNum
>Print !Tell <JSNum> Your job is finished.^G

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