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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How to make it BEEP ?
- Date: 22 Mar 96 18:26:47 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.827519207@rscernix>
- References: <4inmv1$ljj@sunburst.ccs.yorku.ca> <4is9tf$8o3@spanky.pls.ov.com> <4isdrcINNsq6@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960322122122.4343B-100000@mercury>
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- In <Pine.SOL.3.91.960322122122.4343B-100000@mercury> Choy Kah Wai <93202816@mercury.np.ac.sg> writes:
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- >In-Reply-To: <4isdrcINNsq6@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- >
- >On 21 Mar 1996, Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >
- >> No need to make that ascii specific. The C standard gives you a symbolic code
- >> for the alert character.
- >>
- >> putchar('\a');
- >>
- > Or, just simply do:
- > putch(7);
-
- This is c.l.c at its worst. Somebody posts a solution which is correct,
- elegant, readable and portable, then an idiot follows up suggesting
- something which is obscure and very platform specific.
-
- > (Borland compilers..)............................^_^
-
- Since when is Borland selling compilers for Unix?
-
- Sheesh,
- Dan
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