Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:43 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I ring a bell? Message-ID: <20131007135143.9d8aaaf8d5f9d7e5bf956fec@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk> References: <52529CFF.9030105@fjl.co.uk>
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On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:37:35 +0100 Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> wrote: > In the good'ol days I could make UNIX ring a bell (literally) by sending > \a to the console TTY (an ASR33 in my case). Now there's an electronic > synthesised ting or beep from an terminal emulator IF it's got a sound > card and so on, and an IBM-PC had a beep routine in the BIOS. Try this: echo ^G > /dev/console You'll have to type ^V^G to get a real ^G in the command line (^ means control of course). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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