Work around for Beep not working on RunRev 2.7.x+

[J. Landman Gay]

Bill wrote:

> I am glad I can talk about this stuff to the list here because I tried using
> the bug report way once and was told that the invisible gray background is a
> feature and I'm sure I would be told that the command to tell the number of
> times to beep which doesn't work without adding another command is a feature
> too.

I'm glad you talk here too. :)

I don't think RR would tell you that the beep thing is a "feature", I 
think it is just the way different operating systems work. The Rev docs 
are consistent in identifying Mac OS and Mac OS X as different operating 
systems. The "beep" entry talks about Windows and Mac OS X having the 
problem, but it doesn't mention Mac OS or Linux. I think Rev's beep 
command would probably work just as you expect on a native OS 9 machine. 
(Maybe someone with a native OS 9 Mac could take a look?)

It seems to me that the docs are explaining a system limitation, but I 
agree that the engine could probably be altered without too much trouble 
to support multiple beeps on any OS.

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