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From: ib AT wupperonline DOT de (Ingo Brueckl)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:06:00 +0100
Subject: Re: Does "^G" work on Windows 9x/Me?
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Christopher Faylor writes:

> Can anyone confirm if this actually plays a beep?

Windows 98SE here. Unfortunately, since I have the soundcard, my console beep
has become a kind of crackle, but I can confirm that it crackles with

  echo -e "\007"

as well as with MessageBeep (-1) using the program you posted.

Ingo


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