From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 26 19:33:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC75106566B for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E918FC0C for ; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NOcOV-00012d-7R; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:46 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NOcOU-000626-9u; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:42 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBQJXgmp090453; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBQJXg9e090452; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:41 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20091226193341.GA90429@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091225185826.GA82073@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091225204914.2a532df3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091226153327.GA9918@mech-anton242.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091226165005.GA17386@saltmine.radix.net> <20091226171623.GA34116@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091226200852.6f95766f.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091226200852.6f95766f.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Thomas Dickey , Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: example c program that does "beep" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:47 -0000 On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > > instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the > > > terminal description says it can do the beep. > > The exanple I posted displays the return code of the functions, > which is of (int) type. Of course, the common way to use them > is to just call beep(); and it should beep if the terminal can > do it. > > > > > I have > > > > > echo $TERM > > xterm > > > > > > > xterm can do beep, can't it? > > It can. I've just checked from within the xterm terminal > emulator. Are you possibly using Konsole or the Gnome > terminal program, or rxvt? In fact, it shouldn't matter. it's on a text terminal, without X looks like it's sparc issue, I do get beeps with this code on ia386. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423