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RE: potential fix for cygwin's "no system bell" problem
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:24:44 -0600
- Subject: RE: potential fix for cygwin's "no system bell" problem
[snip]
> >CMD.EXE still issues an actual beep (PC-beeper-beep) when I type
> >
> > echo ^G (literal control g)
> >
> >(This is using CMD's built-in echo).
> >
> >bash and tcsh now emit a "ding" instead, for the same command (using
> >shell builtins).
> >
> >(I guess I'm wondering if this is to be the expected
> behavior from now
> >on; is there any way now to get bash and tcsh to emit a real beep?)
>
> This is the way it was has been intended to work for almost two years:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q1/threads.html#00203
>
> cgf
I must have missed something - did "MessageBeep(-1)" never get put in? Or
did it stop working? MSDN still documents it as working even without a
sound card.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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