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From: cfreas@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas)
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Subject: Re: if (DosBeep == _WORTHLESS) {plead('Help!);}
Keywords: DosBeep, speaker, Begging
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Date: 1 Nov 90 17:54:16 GMT
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In article <10312@milton.u.washington.edu> zyx@milton.u.washington.edu (Bt Garner) writes:
>The Plea:  Is there a way to access the speaker without the use of DosBeep?
>Examples would be greatly apprecited, any language will do.

In _Programming the OS/2 Presentation Mananger_ Petzold writes code for an
IOPL segment to perform exactly the "leave on, leave off" type of speaker
access that you want.  I believe the speaker turns on after receipt of
a WM_MOUSE1DOWN (or something) and turns off with a WM_MOUSE1UP (or
something).  Source code in C is provided.

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