How do I make my program beep.

[Jay A. Konigsberg]

The following was extracted from the current release of Gnu Awk 2.11.1.
I have only had a short amount of time to examin it, but it looks like
it is worthwhile to post.

X/* Figure out what '\a' really is. */
X#ifdef __STDC__
X#define BELL	'\a'		/* sure makes life easy, don't it? */
X#else
X#	if 'z' - 'a' == 25	/* ascii */
X#		if 'a' != 97	/* machine is dumb enough to use mark parity */
X#			define BELL	'\207'
X#		else
X#			define BELL	'\07'
X#		endif
X#	else
X#		define BELL	'\057'
X#	endif
X#endif

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If something is worth doing, its worth doing correctly.