How do I make my program beep.

[Henry Spencer]

In article <3472 at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> halam2 at umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Haseen Alam) writes:
> The K&R says that '\a' is an alert (audible bell), but how do I use it to
> make my program beep?  All my attemps were vain!!

On what machine?  You should ask this on a machine-specific newsgroup, like
say comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer.  How you get a beep is *highly* hardware-
dependent.  My Sun-3/180 can't beep at all (although most of the terminals
attached to it can).
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