From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T09:03:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Making my internal speaker beep


mental@rydia.net wrote:
> Quoting William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>:
>
> > print "\a"
>
> mnemonic: "a" is for audiable
> 
> -mental

Or perhaps for "alert".
This also works in awk.