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|    FileGod to Terry Pinnell    |
|    Re: Getting sound from internal source?    |
|    14 Dec 22 20:49:39    |
      From: filegod@sbcglobal.net              On Monday, September 5, 2022 at 10:01:29 AM UTC-7, Terry Pinnell wrote:       > I have a program that sets alarms, and as well as displaying a message        > at the set date/time it is capable of playing a sound track (.WAV        > file).        >        > But that sound only plays if my speakers are switched on.        >        > Is there a command prompt or batch file that will 'beep' the internal        > 'sounder'? There always was one that got activated to tell you of a        > serious fault when failing to boot-up, so I'm hoping that still exists        > in modern PCs?       With the old DOS editor you could hit "control P" then "control G" as I recall       to create a beep.bat' it is high ascii for the bell symbol, it uses the PC       speaker if you have one, I have a beep.bat, I will try and paste it for you:               --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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