On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:52:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Edwin Goei wrote: >>Is there a program that will beep or make a sound in cygwin? In bash, >>I've tried "echo -e \\a" and I get a control-G char but no sound. Is >>there a program that will play a sound file that comes w/ cygwin? I >>run xemacs which does produce sounds but I'm looking for a simpler way. > >The ^G character will work in an xterm or rxvt running under X11. > >It also used to work in the Cygwin console, but apparently doesn't >anymore...
echo "^G" where ^G is the literal "control g" character works fine for me. ^G uses the Windows MessageBeep call so if that isn't working then there are undoubtedly other things wrong with your system. Either that or you have sound muted. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
