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Re: beep perl script


Helmut Karlowski wrote
> Don't know why >/dev/dsp does not work (I get just noise), but you can use  
> ogg123 (ogg-vorbis) and play for example .oga-files:
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> ogg123 alarm-clock-elapsed.oga
> 
> That works for me on 1.7.20.
> 
> It's been a while since I played with sound-output, don't know if you can  
> play wav-files from inside cygwin at all.
> 
> -Helmut

I downloaded vorbis-tools with cygwin package manager, installed it and
tried to play an .ogg file and it did not make a sound at all. I also got
noise with /dev/dsp



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