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

[Dave]

On 5 Apr 2007, at 03:12, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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.

AFAIK, it's the same on Mac OS 9.

All the Best
Dave