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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: beep kills kermit
Message-Id: <1995May31.212913.52915@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 31 May 95 21:29:13 MDT
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In article <3qenmm$654@hippo.shef.ac.uk>, kusogari@shef.ac.uk (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
> Yesterday I spend nearly four hours tracking down the reason
> modem dialing scripts were freezing. I eventually found that if
> I commented out the "echo \7" command in the dialer (sport.scr,
> ultra144.scr), the script would work!
>
> I've not been able to replicate this problem with other take
> files. This makes me think that the "echo \7" is trigger a fault
> that has been created earlier on.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> The dialers are working correctly at the moment; I logged in with
> one to post this.
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Earl,
Honestly, I suspect there is more to the story than has been
revealed thus far. The beep you hear during scripts is generated by
passing DOS a \7 code, and that uses one section of the system timer
chip to make the noise. It's very common, alas. If you have some TSR
loaded that mistakenly thinks it owns the community timer chip then
strange things can happen. We can't guess what is in your machine,
but perhaps you can poke around some to see if there is a sneaky item
waiting to gobble sound effects. Might you also have a soundblaster
board installed?
Joe D.
P.S. Username kusogari is rebuffed by the shef.ac.uk mailer.