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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: example c program that does "beep"
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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.

I have 

> echo $TERM
xterm
>

xterm can do beep, can't it?

But I can't get it to beep on anything.
I probably don't get some basic idea..

many thanks
anton


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