I am actually running this on a laptop,
A three or so year old HP-Pavilion. It has a pretty poor BIOS though.
wont let you choose legacy before EFI for example.
Those utilities look interesting.
Silence has an unclear license statement.

>This Program Is In The Public Domain.
>Users are encouraged to make as many copies as they
>like and to distribute them to whomever they choose.
>Under No Circumstances Is This Program To Be Sold.

So I am not sure it is in the public domain. I will look into that.
I also am thinking about the possibility of making an addon to the shell.
I am going to investigate the code.

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 12:22 PM dmccunney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Johnpaul Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I want to disable the beep in certain freedos applications.> Most 
> > importantly COMMAND.COM
>
> > So I think I have two options as far as freecom is concerned:
> > 1. cut the wires, I want to avoid that if possible.
> > 2. recompile freecom or any app that doesn't explicitly configure the bell.
> > I thought before I sink a lot of time into recompiling, that I would
> > ask around and see if there is some configuration file I missed.
>
> AFAIK, no.  What hardware are you running on?  If you are running
> FreeDOS in a VM, you can probably silence the speaker from the host
> OS.  If you are booting FreeDOS as the OS on the machine, it's a
> problem.  Some BIOSes back in the day would let you set speaker
> volume.  Failing that, your option was usually to disconnect the
> speaker.
>
> A possible option is use of a TSR which will attempt to mute the
> speaker.  Most of these work by continuously polling for speaker
> events, so you will get some level of performance hit from running
> them.  Go to https://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=16&l= and search for
> speaker in the listing for downloads on some.
>
> Another possibility is https://www.pcorner.com/list/UTILITY/SIL2.ZIP/INFO/
>
> I have not tested these and cannot say how well they work.
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