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Date:      Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:43:56 -0600
From:      Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>
To:        Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: beep fuction?
Message-ID:  <363E198C.B23D32D8@mcs.net>
References:  <001901be0605$2902b900$026cfccd@asus.hyperhost.net>

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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

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