Re: [MacPerl] Platform Independent way to beep?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 18.41 -0400 1999.04.28, Jim Correia wrote:
>But that doesn't work on systems that don't have the mac modules
>installed.
>
>So how do i do it?

I believe \a (I use \007) is the only option.  Some places will not work
(some you've mentioned, and terminals that for some reason don't recognize
it).  If there is another way, I'd be surprised, but I'd like to know, too.
:)

But you could special-case it:

if ($^O eq 'MacOS') {
  require Mac::Sound;
  Mac::Sound::SysBeep(0);
} else {
  print "\007";
}

Then if others come along that have other ways of doing it, you can add
those in with elsifs.

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