i wrote something like that to annoy a class i was teaching. some of the terminals had bells that could be turned down to sound a bit like the decwriter. it caused a bit of a stir when i unleashed it (emulating 300 baud of course).
idle stuff. brucee On 2/8/06, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except for GNU ed, of course, which "helpfully" pauses after > > every 24 lines of output when writing to a terminal. Helpful > > indeed when using rio or 9term. And there's no way to turn > > it off! > > got to cope with those glass ttys; it annoys me too. what's more, they've > got audio and could make > it look and sound like a flexowriter, 2741 or tty37, all of which offered > more lines and noise, > but as usual they are just no fun at all. > >
