is beep zero-based?

[Dar Scott]

On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> OTOH, I'm not entirely sure even this 
> documentor-sweep-this-under-the-rug explanation is really accurate. If 
> it were, I would expect the number of audible beeps to be either 
> unpredictable and almost random or I'd expect there to be some 
> relationship between the number of beeps ordered and the number of 
> beeps actually heard. But in my experience on OS X, at least, the 
> number of beeps heard is always and consistently one fewer than 
> ordered by the script.

That is what I see on OS X, too.

> The doc explanation for this seems to me to fall short of a legitimate 
> explanation of the problem and inclines me to agree with Dar: it's a 
> bug but it's not going to be fixed any time soon, so program around > it.

However, since it might be clearer after our discussion that it is 
distinct from the re-beep explanation, it might take on a live as a 
distinct problem and thus take on priorities separate from the re-beep 
issues.

Dar