Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:33:41 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: example c program that does "beep" Message-ID: <20091226193341.GA90429@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091226200852.6f95766f.freebsd@edvax.de> 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>
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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> 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
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