Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've just built a cygwin snapshot which should work around a problem with Cygwin's default bell not working. This was discussed here a while ago: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/threads.html#00895

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
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

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
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

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
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

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01615.html So I just installed snapshot 20060103. I'm running WinXP SP2. Before I installed the snapshot, I didn't have that ...\Apps\.Default\.Default key at all, and the beep apparently still worked for CMD. Now, I have

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:39:51PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01615.html So I just installed snapshot 20060103. I'm running WinXP SP2. Before I installed the snapshot, I didn't have that ...\Apps\.Default\.Default key at all,

RE: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] CMD.EXE still issues an actual beep (PC-beeper-beep) when I type echo ^G (literal control g) (This is using CMD's built-in echo). bash and tcsh now emit a ding instead, for the same command (using shell builtins). (I guess I'm wondering if this is to be the expected

Re: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:24:44PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] CMD.EXE still issues an actual beep (PC-beeper-beep) when I type echo ^G (literal control g) (This is using CMD's built-in echo). bash and tcsh now emit a ding instead, for the same command (using shell

RE: potential fix for cygwin's no system bell problem

2006-01-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] I must have missed something - did MessageBeep(-1) never get put in? Or did it stop working? MSDN still documents it as working even without a sound card. It got put in but it didn't work for everyone. And, for some people, like me, it worked for a while and then stopped.