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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Printer power on-off --- Announce mail arrival.
Message-ID: <1235@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 91 09:24:18 GMT
References: <5671@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <5705@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <5705@idunno.Princeton.EDU> fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU
	(Ira Fuchs) writes:
>The easiest way I know of to have audio announcement of mail arrival is to
>create a .forward file (or append to an existing one) the following:
>"|sndplay soundofyourchoice.snd".

A couple of people did this here (under 1.0--before
PublicSoundServer) on shared/laboratory network machines.
Needless to say, the novelty wore off very quickly, and we asked
them to modify this to check for console login first (or else).

					-=EPS=-