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[Phillip McCleod]

7. pretty damn good!

the KLINGON function has a line that reads:

printf "\a"

try it in your *SH (tested in BASH)

if nothing interesting happens, make sure your terminal program allows system beeps ('bell on').

it's an utterly simplistic shell-based alarm clock program that will let you set the alarm in relative or absolute clock time. i wrote it one night at a motel when i had a plane to catch and too much 'fun' beforehand. i cleaned it a bit, later, but not much.

once the alarm starts going off, it waits for any keypress to stop it. otherwise your computer will beep into eternity..