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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Attaching sounds to actions?
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Date: 23 Jan 91 03:26:11 GMT
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In article <985@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu
(Barry Merriman) writes:

>Is there any way to attach sounds to system functions like
>logout, killing a process, deleting a file, etc?

>[details omitted]

That is an *very* silly idea, but I'm interested in almost
the same thing! :-)

I have this motd:

ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 52) System #2: Mon Jan  7 17:18:01 CST 1991
UWS V4.1 (Rev. 197) ...dogie...

(oops, wrong gadget! I want the other one:)

Yak (Poephagus grunniens) <> yak.macc.wisc.edu [128.104.30.152] <> (NeXT 2.0)

It's the Dairy State, so our hosts have kinetic names :-)

Up to here, this whole posting is just a joke.  What I
really want is something on the order of a spoken message at
the end of the logon sequence, after whatever is opened from
the dock opens, along the lines of

Good <morning | afternoon | evening>, <personal name>, how
may I do your bidding?

Or other such nonsense.

I only have a couple accounts to deal with, so it's just for
fun and the relief of tedium in the workplace.  Of course,
this being a university, we call it research.

Spoken fortunes could be fun, too, I guess.

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