example c program that does "beep"

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > 
> > > instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the
> > > terminal description says it can do the beep.
> 
> The exanple I posted displays the return code of the functions,
> which is of (int) type. Of course, the common way to use them
> is to just call beep(); and it should beep if the terminal can
> do it.
> 
> 
> 
> > I have 
> > 
> > > echo $TERM
> > xterm
> > >
> > 
> > xterm can do beep, can't it?
> 
> It can. I've just checked from within the xterm terminal
> emulator. Are you possibly using Konsole or the Gnome
> terminal program, or rxvt? In fact, it shouldn't matter.

it's on a text terminal, without X

looks like it's sparc issue, I do get beeps with this
code on ia386.

many thanks
anton

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