is beep zero-based?

[Dan Shafer]

Thanks to valetia for the pointer to the docs (doh!) and to Dar Scott  
for an admittedly awful but nonetheless delightful poetic augmentation.

I should definitely have read the "beep" doc before I posted. For that,  
I apologize for wasting the list's bandwidth.

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. 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.

And that's how I'll document it in my eBook!

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