RE: Control G Beep on Telnet session using Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Jim,

First off, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.

Your use of the expression "on the server" in the two contexts is
confusing.  I think at this point you'd better provide the exact steps you
use to launch "vi" and "telnet".  AFAIK, vi simply echoes "^G" to the
terminal.  OTOH, telnet simply passes whatever characters it gets from the
remote application to the terminal (which could be "^G").  Why not try to
run "vi" both locally and remotely (via telnet) from the same type of
window (either X or rxvt or a console) and see if you get the same ding.
	Igor

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jim Gelasakis wrote:

> Me Again,
>
> We have determined that a session in Vi when Escape is pressed
> we hear the the beep we want on the server - No sound card is used
> instead it is a system bell.
>
> When we do this through a telnet session the beep still happens on the
> server.
>
> Any ideas on how vi calls this the Beep? And also any ideas on routing
> it to the telnet session?
>
> And yes it is a basic piezo beep not the WAV sound. sorry for the
> maddening....
>
> Kind Regards
> Jim Gelasakis
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha<at>cs<dot>nyu<dot>edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:18 AM
> To: Jim Gelasakis
> Cc: cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com
> Subject: Re: Control G Beep on Telnet session using Cygwin
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Jim Gelasakis wrote:
>
> > We are using Cygwin version 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) on Windows 2000.
> >
> > I have a telnet session to my Shell - using bash.
> >
> > I want to generate a system beep (not a WAV) in the telnet session.
>
> The Cygwin console uses the MessageBeep functionality of Windows, which
> usually plays a WAV.
>
> > We used to be able to do this previously in MKS using the control ^G
> > statement to generate a system beep to the telnet session through
> > named PIPES.
>
> Huh?  ^G is the BEL character, and should generate a beep (or a ding),
> but what does that have to do with named pipes?
>
> > We have tried many ways through Cygwin but are unable to achieve the
> > same result.  Is their an equivalent way to get this to work??? are we
>
> > able to get this function to work under Cygwin???
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Jim Gelasakis
>
> If you aren't getting any sound at all, try googling for "cygwin
> defaultbeep".  Otherwise, if you are getting the sound but not the one
> you want, try it from an X application (e.g., xterm).  See
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00903.html> for more info (be
> sure to read the follow-ups, though).
>         Igor

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