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From: regoli@silver.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Silence is golden...A utility to disable a pee cee's bell
Message-ID: <422@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 09:21:07 EST
Article-I.D.: silver.422
Posted: Thu Nov 12 09:21:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 13:33:07 EST
Organization: iu cs, bloomington
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someone was asking on 'ibm.pc about software to disable the speaker.

attached is a uuencoded, public domain copy of silence.com, a memory
resident program to do just that.

download, feed to uudecode and type "silence ?" for more information.

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                              michael regoli
                     indiana university, bloomington
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