Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

[tom e. <te...@dr...>]

Hello Bart,

> Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial
> line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not
> on the PC where FreeCOM actually runs.

> So I vote for

>    putchar('\007');

> no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct hardware, just keep it
> simple -- the ASCII beep goes to STDOUT, redirected to STDAUX and beeps at
> the right place.

in that case, I vote for MS compatibility: don't beep at all.

(the default BIOS beep is really dull)

tom