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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
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Subject: Re: sound() function
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:27:56 +0200
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> said:

> Sorry, you are out of luck: `sound' works by writing to a certain
> port, and XP doesn't allow direct access to ports.  So it cannot work
> on XP.

Not true. sound() writes to ports 42h, 43h and 61h which works fine
under Win-XP here (the port access is virtualised).

Maybe the OP uses delay() to hear the beep. djgpp's 
delay() as we know has problems under Win-NT. So he should
use usleep() instead.

--gv