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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: bell problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.194017.96@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:40:17 GMT
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In article <1991Feb13.153439.10748@rice.edu>, anand@crysiris.rice.edu (Anand Kolatkar) writes:
|> 
|> 	I am posting on behalf of another user.  He is having a problem
|> 	using the setbell command in Pascal (the system is a 4D/20-OS
|> 	3.3.1).  His code:
|> 
|> 	var bellmode: byte;
|> 
|> 	bellmode:=2;
|> 	setbell(bellmode);
|> 
|> 	compiles but a run-time error is reported:
|> 
|> 	ERROR: CPS has not been initialized or server connection failed.
|> 

setbell is a GL call.  Before calling any function in the GL (except those
that set window manager hints) you must call winopen() or ginit().
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