Re: Getting access to PC-Speaker

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 07/13/03 

Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:44:30 +0200

In alt.os.linux.suse Dave <dwat@gc.quik.com.au> wrote:
> G'day All

> I am trying to get some beeps from the PC-Speaker - just
> simple tones.

> I'm writing in C and have tried the suggested methods
> such as printf("%c\n", '\007');
> printf("%c\n", 0x07);
> printf("\a");
> putchar ('\a');
> putc('\a', stderr);

What does the following, from some xterm?

$ echo -e "\a" > /dev/console 

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