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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I've just built a cygwin snapshot which should work around a problem
> with Cygwin's default bell not working.  This was discussed here a while
> ago:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/threads.html#00895
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/threads.html#00966
>
> (and it may have even been mentioned more recently for all that I
> know)
>
> And Lev Bishop posted a fix even earlier:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01615.html
>
> This problem is apparently more prevalent than I had thought so my
> decision not to do anything about it in 2004 was wrong.
>
> I stumbled into this conclusion because someone was trying to figure out
> what was going wrong on the cygwin irc channel on freenode.net today
> and, on testing, it was discovered that neither Corinna nor I had a
> working bell anymore, either.  So, rather than make this a FAQ, as
> suggested by Igor in the 2004 thread, I thought it would be best to just
> fix the problem in cygwin itself.
>
> The snapshot uses Lev's method to reinstate the default bell.  If there
> are other causes for this problem then they won't be fixed by this
> method but this seems to rectify things for me.

FWIW, this will only work on WinXP.  Win2k uses 'ding.wav' instead.
'ding.wav' is also present on XP, so as a catch-all solution, using that
may be better.
HTH,
	Igor
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