System bell

[Steve Holden]

Trent Mick wrote:
> [Baza wrote]
> 
>>Am I right in thinking that >>>print "\a" should sound the system, 'bell'?
> 
> 
> It works on the shell on Windows for me (WinXP).
> 
> Trent
> 
Interesting. From a Cygwin bash shell I got an elegant little dingish 
sort of a beep (my volume control was set kind of low). I then ran the 
same code in a Windows shell and nearly deafened myself. It appears that 
the volume control doesn't affect the Windows XP commans shell beep - 
even muting the Windows audio output doesn't stop it (though it does 
stop the Cygwin beep). This could cause heart attacks!

regards
  Steve
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