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. > ______ > Dennis > > . > > > > > Johnpaul T. Humphrey > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > -- > _______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Johnpaul T. Humphrey _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
