On 10/5/2025 12:31 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
That is not a DOS function. In what application are you pressing TAB, as
that would be for me the first place to look at...
The beep happens if you are at the FreeCOM command line and try to do
tab completion for when there's more than one thing to complete. For
example, my C:\ directory has FDAUTO.000, FDAUTO.BAT, and FDCONFIG.SYS
.. so that's 3 things that start "FD". If I type:
TYPE FD
..and hit tab, I get the beep.
If I hit tab a second time, it shows the 3 files (but no beep)
And there's an easier way to get the beep: just hit tab on an empty
command line.
There's also a BEEP command built into FreeCOM. :-)
To answer Ronald's question: this is a BIOS beep, so you should be
able to go into your BIOS config and set the volume or turn it off
entirely. I'm not sure about DOSBox, but you can probably set an
option to control the beep volume level.
Well, I never have used any command line completion like that.. 😕
But if that is a FreeCOM feature, why would that happen in DOSBOX?
Ralf
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