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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:29:20 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: beep won't

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Steve Carter wrote:

> The overhead to execute a simple beep is certainly excessive,
> but since it is intended for (relatively) slow human beings
> it may not matter. And of course, today's machines are
> significantly faster than yesterday's. [Unfortunately, mine
> is from yesteryear.]

Speaking of "yesteryear"; I just ran my beep test program. I had not
used it for a while. Still works fine. It does peg the System
Activity Monitor.

Ray

@echo off
D:\NU_DOS\be beep /D2 /F1000 /R2 /W2
D:\NU_DOS\be beep /D9 /F650 /R2 /W9
:: BEEP [switches]
:: or
:: BEEP command-file [/E]
::
::Switches
:: /Dn Duration of the tone in n/18 seconds
:: /Fn Sound a tone of frequency n
:: /Rn Repeat the tone n times
:: /Wn Wait between tones n/18 seconds
:: /E Echo text in quotes following notes

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