Yes, thanks to all. Not meaning to be impolite, but I generally post queries in plural locations and don't mind at all when others do the same. It's a habit I got into at work where the powers that be hold that patience is not a virtue...alas. The tactic has bled into my private endeavours too, I fear. The comp.lang.perl listing was my first news post in more than ten years by the way. And I do appreciate all the help.

For some reason I could not get Acme::Morse::Audible to work as described on my NetBSD box. I will have to study that and puzzle it out.

I'll be studying the MIDI::* modules next in the hopes of improving what I managed to cobble together in the mean time. The MIDI function, I am hoping, will speed things up over the route I used.

About that latter, from my end I had dug into the Audio::Wav module and discovered it could generate a sine wave, which I thoroughly abused to get something working for at least the time being.

The results of my own puny efforts are on-line here...

gus_morse.pl

...which is admittedly crude, but which I expect to polish after study of everyone's kind contributions.

Thanks to all,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA