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Subject:	RE: potential fix for cygwin's "no system bell" problem
Date:	Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:24:44 -0600
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[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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