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From: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Audible Bell
Message-ID: <4800@slate.Diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 00:58:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 00:58:23 1987
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In comp.windows.x HODGES@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA (Richard Hodges) writes:
>Why doesn't the Audible bell work in X.V10R4 on Sun 3/50, running
>Sun OS 3.0 or 3.2?

You first have to create /dev/bell, which is the device XFeep() wants
to talk to.  I did it by issuing the following commands as root:

	/etc/mknod /dev/bell c 12 2
	chmod 666 /dev/bell
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