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| PCSpk - PC-Speaker Server & Client | | version: 0.0.4 |
\-----------------------by Przemys³aw 'Przemoc' Pawe³czyk <przemoc@gmail.com>-/
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| Description |
PCSpk is a set of command line applications for playing simple sounds and melodies using the PC speaker. It is inspired by simple, but really great Johnathan Nightingale's beep (http://www.johnath.com/beep/).
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| Documentation |
pcspkd - run it with --help option
pcspk - run it with --help option, reads from stdin
without -n | --note option
space seperated values f[:l], where:
f is integer - frequency (in Hz)
l is integer - length (in ms), default: 200
with -n | --note option
first 3-digit number is integer - tempo (bpm)
next are space seperated values TOL, where:
T is letter - tone: C,d(des),D,e(es),E,F,g(ges),G,a(as),A,B,H,P(pause)
O is digit - octave: 0-9
L is digit/letter - length: L=0-9,A-Z <=> 1/(L+1)
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| Requirements |
Of course PC Speaker ;-) and PC Speaker support (in linux kernel 2.6: Device Drivers > Input device... > Miscellaneous... > PC Speaker support). If you want to run pcspkd by non-root user you can do it only from tty and must have /proc file system support (in lk 2.6: File... > Pseudo... > /proc file system support, in lk 2.4: File... > /proc file system support).
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| Examples of usage |
fcat - Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat (beginning) fuga - J.S.Bach fugue in D minor (fragment) fuga2 - J.S.Bach fugue in D minor (longer fragment) cosmic - wtf? ;-)
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| Installation |
See INSTALL file.
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| ChangeLog |
See ChangeLog file.
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| To do |
See TODO file.