Re: HLA History

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/11/05


Date: 11 Feb 2005 16:41:54 +0200

Frank Kotler <fbkotler@comcast.net> writes:
> Phil Carmody wrote:
>
> > The 2KB uuencoded self-decompressing, self-compiling, shell script
> > I posted here a few months ago
>
> I don't seem to have saved it. Can you recall the "subject",
> or anything that would help me find it? Hell, 2k, post it
> again if you can lay your hands on it - shorter than a Beth
> P.S. :)

Maybe I was bin-cancelled? Just in case, I've removed the
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> So they tell me! But I haven't actually figured out how to
> open a file to the speaker. (referring to the "built-in
> speaker", not a soundcard)

Eeep, I have no idea about specifically getting the speaker
to work apart from a BEL character.

> The reason this is on my mind is a thread on the Nasm forum.
> Someone wants to beep the speaker, and thinks that sending
> ascii 7 to int 10h/0Eh would be the "easy" way to do it.
> I've explained that bios ints are 16-bit code... and that
> *maybe* you could do it with the assistance of sys_vm86
> (don't know if this is actually true), but that it would be
> easier to do it almost *any* other way. Simply writing ascii
> 7 to stdout won't work for him... Apparently, he's got some
> kind of "embedded system", and doesn't *have* stdout... I
> guess he communicates with this "blind box" via a serial
> interface of some sort, and wants it to notify him of
> certain events via a "beep".
>
> I thought that getting permission to use the ports, and
> doing it that way, would be his best bet. Better - or even
> just "other" - ways to do it are always welcome!

If he doesn't have stdout, he's left Unix land already.

Does he have any instance of any program that beeps? If so,
the debugger is his friend.

Phil

-- 
If a religion is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable
statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it
is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. -- John Barrow


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