On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 08:08:52PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:16:23 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:50:06AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > > instead of the printf/fflush, it would clear the screen and beep - if the > > > terminal description says it can do the beep. > > The exanple I posted displays the return code of the functions, > which is of (int) type. Of course, the common way to use them > is to just call beep(); and it should beep if the terminal can > do it. > > > > > I have > > > > > echo $TERM > > xterm > > > > > > > xterm can do beep, can't it? > > It can. I've just checked from within the xterm terminal > emulator. Are you possibly using Konsole or the Gnome > terminal program, or rxvt? In fact, it shouldn't matter.
it's on a text terminal, without X looks like it's sparc issue, I do get beeps with this code on ia386. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"