bells and beeps

[Dave Decot]

> we are novice unix users running a hewlett-packard 9000/835 under
> hp-ux (a berkeley and at &tt unix hybrid. how do we activate
> a keyboard beep from within a korn shell script? the idea is
> to warn users of invalid entries before the screen clears.

    echo "You made a mistake!^G"

where ^G means you hit control-G at that point in entering the script.

Dave