[Lazarus] Posting from Gmane seems blocked

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2 September 2010 15:42, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 September 2010 14:47, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Am 02.09.2010 13:02, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>>>
>>> On 02/09/10 10:39, Peter E Williams wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:38:13 +0200 John vd Waeter<john at jvdw.nl> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Lol, I wrote something like that years ago... but in these days it was
>>>>> allowed to address the speaker hardware...
>>>>>
>>>>> Windows.Beep(freq,duration) does about the same, but afaik it is not
>>>>> implemented in Lazarus.
>>>>
>>>> At the risk of asking a silly question. Why has no-one ported the
>>>> Windows.Beep procedure to Lazarus. Surely it is not too hard ?!?
>>>
>>> It's not fool proof, but it's not too hard. See here:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/johnath/beep/blob/master/beep.c
>>>
>>> Henry
>>
>> It's not only not fool proof, but beep also requires to be run as root,
>> because a normal user can't open /dev/console with write access.
>
> http://github.com/johnath/beep/blob/master/README#L25

Sorry, sent by mistake.  I meant to add that Debian's beep is setuid
to get around this (information in readme).

Henry