Re: ALERT.ACC

[Xav <MBGE4MDC@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk>]

>> Does anyone know if it's possible to send a message to ALERT, for 
>> it 
>> to appear as an alert within MTOS, and if so, how would I do it? I 
>> want to be able to do it from a shell command - I've tried echo'ing 
>> to /pipe/alert in several different formats, but to no avail.
>
> Just use the system call Salert to send a message to /pipe/alert. If
> no process is reading /pipe/alert the string will be written to the
> standard output of MiNT.

I should have been a bit clearer. I was after something to use in 
shell scripts. Has anyone written anything to take a message in, and 
Salert it out, or will I have to dust off my C compiler (not to 
mention brain cells), and write something?

Cheers,

Xav


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