Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:07:37 +0200
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	Yerrick on Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:04:50 GMT)
Subject:	Re: How to ring tge bell?
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:04:50 GMT
> 
> >This reminds me of a problem I have with "sound". On one machine running Win
> >NT "sound" behaves very much like "nosound" the first time it is called
> >after the program was started, i. e. the first call of "sound" doesn't
> >produce any sound. Only the second, third, and so on do. Has anyone else
> >experienced this? Is it a hardware or NT problem?
> 
> Remember:  NT.  VDM.  Has.  Bugs.
> 
> int main()
> {
>   sound(); nosound(); /* work around an nt4 bug */
>   ...
> }

Perhaps you (or someone else) could introduce a work-around along
these lines into `sound' and send in the patches.  (Please be sure to
test it on NT, if you decide to do this.)

Thanks!

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