Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:21:24 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> Cc: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: beep fuction? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981103102046.262A-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <363E198C.B23D32D8@mcs.net>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Dave Bodenstab wrote:
> Patrick Seal wrote:
> >
> > Is their a fuction or program or something that will make my PC
> > Speaker beep? I tried ncurses beep and flash but they didn't seem to
> > work.
>
> Did you do an ``initscr()''?
>
> In any event, unless you're using [n]curses for screen management,
> you probably don't want to use [n]curses -- Terminfo is sufficient:
>
> tgetent(buffer,getenv("TERM"))
> BL = tgetstr("bl",...)
> tputs(BL,...)
>
> however, for the simplest case, the following usually works:
>
> fputc('\007',stderr)
>
> If you're coding an X11 application, then you need to use:
>
> XBell(...)
>
> And finally, if you've configured your kernel with:
>
> pseudo-device speaker #Play IBM BASIC-style noises out your speaker
>
> you can do:
>
> echo -n C >/dev/speaker
>
> Dave Bodenstab
> imdave@mcs.net
>
> (I'm experimenting with Netscape mail... I apologize if this
> message is mis-formatted)
>
Hey.
I've always used the following to make beeps:
printf("\a");
-Spike Gronim
sporkl@ix.netcom.com
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