How do I make my program beep.

[P E Smee]

In article <43605 at ism780c.isc.com> marv at ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) writes:
>putchar('\7') has an even more serious defect.  The reason for beeping is
>to notify the user of the program of something while the program is
>*running*. There is no guarantee that sending a '\7' to stdout will cause an
>beep.  Stdout may well be a diskfile.  The output must be directed to a
>device that will make a noise that the user can hear.  I know of no portable
>way to do this.

Only things certain in life are death and taxes.  However, I'd say you
could maximize your changes by writing the '\7' to stderr rather than
stdout; or, even better, to /dev/tty.  With flushes as required.

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