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

[Bill]

You have a point. Maybe it would be easier to just make the beep only able
to beep once.

I also just got an email (from bugzilla) saying the WYSIWIG conflict of the
background appearing white has been resolved. It was a minor bug but fixed
now.


On 4/5/07 1:27 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Jim Ault wrote:
>> I think of the beep command in Rev as one of the things that has been
>> included for backward compatibility.  New users would have no way of knowing
>> about the legacy features, and the docs do not cover every nuance, nook and
>> crany, so it *is* more of an exercise in trivia.  A very good reason for
>> this list and its activity.
> 
> The beep command is generally useful enough that it should be expected
> to work, legacy or no.
> 
> But in recent years the number of times computers beep at you has
> greatly declined; these days the beep is used only in the rarest of
> data-loss confirmations.
> 
> And it's nearly unheard of to beep at a user multiple times; I suspect
> this rarity is why any issues with multi-beep sequences hasn't been
> discovered before.
> 
> Users have a difficult enough life as it is, why would we want to beep
> at them multiple times?