OK great - Both Tom and Ben Boulanger nominated 'swatch', which goes to show that you can teach an old dog like me new tricks.
The capability of triggering a sound event is fairly routine nowadays, both under Linux as well as under certain MS products. Back when I started with DEC in '78, I was told that a certain large, well-known customer had a bunch of PDP-11/70's for some critical functions. The PDP-11 architecture had a very nice (IMNSHO) interrupt architecture, so that various events could be properly dispatched to their handler routines. There was even one for when the interrupt stacks themselves were corrupted. (Anyone remember the yellow-zone/red-zone stuff?). Well, this customer, well-known for its technology and its geek humor, set up their systems so that a trap to the system crash vector would close a relay contact and set off an audible alarm. In their case, it was a tape recording of a human death scream. Rather unnerving for service personnel on their first service calls to this particular facility, but at least everyone knew when the system died. Thanks, Bayard _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
