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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:54:06 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Beep or playing a sound [Attn: CGF]
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:49:16PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:52:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Edwin Goei wrote:
>> >>Is there a program that will beep or make a sound in cygwin?  In bash,
>> >>I've tried "echo -e \\a" and I get a control-G char but no sound.  Is
>> >>there a program that will play a sound file that comes w/ cygwin?  I
>> >>run xemacs which does produce sounds but I'm looking for a simpler way.
>> >
>> >The ^G character will work in an xterm or rxvt running under X11.
>> >
>> >It also used to work in the Cygwin console, but apparently doesn't
>> >anymore...
>>
>> echo "^G"
>>
>> where ^G is the literal "control g" character works fine for me.  ^G
>> uses the Windows MessageBeep call so if that isn't working then there
>> are undoubtedly other things wrong with your system.  Either that or you
>> have sound muted.
>
>MessageBeep in general does not work on my system (even from a non-Cygwin
>program).  There used to be a "DefaultBeep" event in Windows that had a
>sound associated with it -- that was the sound that MessageBeep used.
>I don't know why there is no such event now, but there isn't.

The missing DefaultBeep is a generic problem in need of fixing.  As I'm
sure you know, you do this via the control panel.  In XP it is the
Sounds and Audio Devices Properties selection.

cgf

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