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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: visible bell
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Date: 20 Jul 88 14:17:37 GMT
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In article <1889@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:

>I've got a variety of termcap entries here, some standard, some homebrew,
>that include the vb (visible bell) attribute.  My question:  How do I get
>things (eg, csh) to use the visible bell instead of beeping?

Csh doesn't use termcap.  In general, programs that produce line-oriented
output, as opposed to full-screen output, don't need termcap.

The only way I can think of to make visible bell work as you want it to
is to convince the terminal to interpret an ASCII 7 (BEL) as a request
for the flash.  If the terminal is not smart enough (your GIGI? Hah!)
you may have to run all your programs through a filter to translate
\07 to the correct code for the terminal.  See the discussion in
comp.unix.wizards on command line editors; that would be the
logical place to put this translation code.

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