Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do I make my program beep.
Message-ID: <1990May27.000808.13551@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3472@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: Sun, 27 May 90 00:08:08 GMT

In article <3472@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> halam2@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Haseen Alam) writes:
> The K&R says that '\a' is an alert (audible bell), but how do I use it to
> make my program beep?  All my attemps were vain!!

On what machine?  You should ask this on a machine-specific newsgroup, like
say comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer.  How you get a beep is *highly* hardware-
dependent.  My Sun-3/180 can't beep at all (although most of the terminals
attached to it can).
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