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Subject: IBM music, how is it done?
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Date: Mon, 7-Sep-87 04:01:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  7 04:01:03 1987
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Having seen lots of DOS software that whistles, chirps and
otherwise sings its way into your heart, I got to playing
around with the ^G settings (bell). 

Now, in an ansi system you can control the frequency and
duration of the bell tone with the string,
	ESC[=F;TB
Where F is the frequency and T is the duration in 10ths of a
second.  The problem lies that in a XENIX system the
parameters seem to be locked in. That is you can't specify
anything other than multiples of 10ths of minutes (1-???)
AND whole number frequencys, (220,440,etc....) not 237.67 .

Now taking these facts into consideration, has anyone done
ANY programming in this area? On a DOS level is fine, or is
XENIX being forced to remain mute? 

BTW, if anyone is interested, I've written a VERY simplistic
program in lex to parse a file and generate tones in the
cromatic scale. It will play (?) a tune.

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