Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Control G Beep on Telnet session using Cygwin Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Apr 2004 15:01:44.0656 (UTC) FILETIME=[8E2A1500:01C42C68] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 27 April 2004 15:48 > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jim Gelasakis wrote: > > > We are using Cygwin version 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) on Windows 2000. > > > > I have a telnet session to my Shell - using bash. > > > > I want to generate a system beep (not a WAV) in the telnet session. > > The Cygwin console uses the MessageBeep functionality of > Windows, which usually plays a WAV. Jim is presumably referring to the PC speaker beep, which is often still a little piezo squawker inside the pc's case somewhere. I have this vague memory that cygwin used to use it back around 1.3.x, but maybe it's something in 'doze that controls whether you get a real piezo bleep or a .wav file played through your sound card that has changed in my setup since those days, so I really dunno. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/