On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:12:13PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >FWIW, this will only work on WinXP. Win2k uses 'ding.wav' instead. > >'ding.wav' is also present on XP, so as a catch-all solution, using that > >may be better. > > Maybe you should have checked on the current state of the sources before > sending this email?
OTOH, there's still a potential (minor) problem with the new fix, as it hard-codes the Windows directory into the entry. On my WinXP system, it is set to '%SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Ding.wav', which, I presume, is of type REG_SZ_EXPAND. FWIW, Win2k uses just "ding.wav", with no path. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/