> On 10/5/2025 11:25 AM, Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On the machines I am running, and even in DOSBOX there is a loud beep > > when one hits tab and there are multiple choices. It would be great if > > this could be turned off. It's not so bad on DOSBOX because I just use > > headphones and I don't wear them. > > > > But - on the laptop I use wit FreeDOS on the bare metal and the > > desktop machine I am trying (with a real 3.5" floppy disk wooo) hit > > tab and the system speaker wakes the dead. plugging in headphones does > > not quiet it either.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM Ralf Quint 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. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
