Museum

sound

PURPOSE

     Controls the volume and click of the keyboard speaker.

SYNOPSIS
     sound [-hlmo]

     sound [-cq]

     sound [-hlmo] [-cq]

DESCRIPTION

     The sound command controls the volume of the sound output
     (the  console bell  and  the keyboard  click) and,  addi-
     tionally, whether or not  the keyboard click is produced.
     You can modify these  two sound characteristics independ-
     ently of each other.

     The  system  startup process  sets  the  sound volume  to
     medium.

     Note:   You   can  run   sound  only  from   the  console
     (/dev/console).

FLAGS

     You must select at least  one flag from the following two
     groups of flags or, optionally, one flag from each of the
     two groups.  The first group of flags controls the volume
     of all sound output:

     -h Sets the volume to high.
     -l Sets the volume to low.
     -m Sets the volume to medium.
     -o Turns the volume off.

     The second group  of flags controls whether  or not click
     sounds are produced:

     -c Turns clicking on.
     -q Turns clicking off (quiet).

EXAMPLE

     To set the volume to low and turn the click function on:

       sound -lc

     In addition to turning on the keyboard click ("-c"), this
     command sets the volume of both the bell and the click to
     low ("-l").