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From: andrewt@WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU (Andrew Thomas)
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Subject: bash and beeping
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Date: 15 Jun 89 18:52:39 GMT
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I got this message from a friend who is also using bash.  version 0.99...

"J. Michael Berkley" writes:
 > In readline.c, bash does a bunch of stuff with tgetstr and tputs, i.e.
 > using termcap to figure out how to fiddle with the screen.  Then it
 > goes and uses \007 to print a beep, instead of looking for a visual
 > bell.  I really hate beeping shells.  Is there any chance of
 > convincing bash to use vb instead of \007 (he even hard-coded "\007"
 > into a string - yech!).
 > 
 > mike

I second the emotion.

Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus