Hi,
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel
<[email protected]> 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.
Just to clarify, DOSBox does not normally use FreeDOS or its shell, FreeCOM.
> 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.
I assume you're just using the stock FreeCOM shell that came with
latest FreeDOS. I haven't checked, but I don't think there was an
official (good) way to turn off beeping. Maybe there should be. A very
naive suggestion would be coding "if (getenv("NOBEEP")==NULL) { ... }"
and recompile. What version does "ver /r" say for you?
Years ago, I was still using ancient FreeCOM 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap from
2006! And I made a small binary patch (.EXE must be un-UPX'd first!)
to disable beeping (exit two assembly functions early).
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