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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Problems with Kermit
Message-ID: <43319@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 23:40:31 GMT
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>>>My [who??] solution(s): 1) turn the sound OFF from the Control Panel;
>>>this will make the screen border flash when a BELL character is
>>>received: a VisiBell, as it were.

(Ralph Carpenter says)
>>Unfortunately, this requires booting GSOS...much too slow a process if
>>you're just running a ProDOS-8 program...

(Todd Whitesel says)
>Wrong! He's talking about the Classic Control Panel, the one you can enter from
>the CDA menu. Type Control-Option-Esc (or is it Control-OpenApple-Esc? I have
>the reflex down so well I can't remember which, I just do it).

Sure, you can turn the sound off from the CDA control panel, no problem.
If you have a ROM 03 machine, the border will blink for bells.  (I'm not
sure if you lose any characters during the border blink or not!  Give it
a try.)

If you have  ROM 01 machine, the border will blink only if you have booted
recent system software (or have otherwise installed a "VisiBell" CDA or
something, which you could probably do with P8CDA).
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