Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!GAR.UNION.EDU!91_bickingd From: 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Displaybeep and Unix... this was originally in c.s.a.tech Message-ID: <9011220147.AA17409@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 21 Nov 90 23:35:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 40 >Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion >Message-ID: <7100@sugar.hackercorp.com> >Date: 21 Nov 90 12:46:23 GMT >> I think one of the main advantages of Amiga UNIX is that it's Standard UNIX. >> You have a zillion '386 machines out there, and if they're not running one >> of the ugly MS operating systems, they're running System V, probably 3.x but >> soon moving to 4.0. >And you think that applications developers are going to keep an A3000UX around >to compile a copy of their code on for the relatively few 68000 ABI machines >out there? If they have a 68000 based machine it'll probably be a Sun: and >SunOS is BSD derived: not System V. In the workstation world BSD is the >standard. (I personally think BSD sucks, but facts are facts) Hm. I was under the impression that BSD was going to be a subset of UNIX V.4. Am I mistaken here? >Speaking of 2.0, I really really dislike the new DisplayBeep (it now flashes >Color 0 into Color 1 instead of inverting the palette), because it makes all >my text windows turn black. My wife finds it particularly distracting. Please >change it back before you burn ROMs. Please. Even better: (if it hasn't already been done) Why not make the beep be whatever sound the end-user wants? I have a pd program calld Playbeep, and it allows me to use any IFF sound file as a beep (yes, even long songs, but I'm not insane). The only problem is that it doesn't handle stereo sounds and it probably won't work in WB 2.0. Why not supply the OPTION of designating some IFF sound as a beep? It's a little thing, but I think it is very important (details are more important than one might think) >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- Dave Bicking Single Tasking????? Just say NO!!!! Union College Box 152 91_bickingd@union.bitnet // Schenectady, NY 12308 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu \X/ Amiga -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-