[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Garry Heaton announce to the hordes:
> 
> I need to set my crontab to create an audible alert every 20mins. to remind
> me to do a neck & shoulder exercise. Can't find any info on generating a
> system 'beep'. Any ideas?

echo <ctrl v><ctrl g> from the shell prompt
in joe, this would be echo `<ctrl g>.
(` pressed once in joe says "take the next char as entered rather than
interpretting it as an editor command")

Dunno about other editors. 


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