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Re: 20000718: beep when certain products arrive

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  • Subject: Re: 20000718: beep when certain products arrive
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:47:10 -0600


Robert,

One more thing here. It was pointed out to me by Russ Rew that in my cut/paste
from my test.csh, I missed changing all /tmp/test.$$ strings to /tmp/warn.$$.
I got the last 2...missed the first 2.

Also, Russ mentioned that the xterm invocation line was wrapped by the mailer...
the -exec tail +1f /tmp/warn.$$ part is all one line.

Chiz


On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Steve Chiswell wrote:

> 
> >I thought I had read how to do this somewhere, but I can't find
> >it.  I would like to produce a keyboard beep when warnings
> >or watches come in, and then file the product.  How do I set
> >this up in pqact.conf?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Robert Mullenax
> 
> 
> Robert,
> 
> I believe you will need a tty running to issue the cntl-G to for the
> BEL (ASCII 007) character to sound.
> 
> Here is an example that pops up an xterm tty that displays the product and
> beeps:
> 
> #!/bin/csh -f
> # opens window and displays product....holds open until ^C is given
> 
> setenv DISPLAY displayhost:0
> 
> cat >! /tmp/test.$$
> set BEL=^G
> echo $BEL >> /tmp/test.$$
> /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -title warning -fg white -bg red1 -exec tail +1f
> /tmp/warn.$$
> 
> rm /tmp/warn.$$
> 
> 
> In the above, ^G should be replaced with the actual control G character-
> but it has been replaced for sending through the mail.
> 
> Then, in pqact.conf:
> DDPLUS        ^(WW|WF)US.* (KDEN|KBOU)
>       PIPE    -close  util/warn_popup.csh
> 
> 
> Otherwise, you could EXEC a program that plays through your sound card (such 
> as
> a wav player).
> 
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
> 
>