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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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