System Beep using Cygwin

["Jim Gelasakis" <gelasakis at Pulse dot com dot au>]

Hi there,

Let me try this again as I think I have confused some.

We have telnet sessions which we need to beep on some logic error.  

Previously, we have made them beep by simply outputing a ^G to make the
bell sound.  

This now fails to make a sound under a Cygwin session.

The following can reproduce the symptom.  

Telnet into a cygwin session, and run a unix script that contains the
one line:

echo "^G"

We'd expect this to beep - a system bell not a wav file.

We are working on a client (a device or a PC from which we telnet into
the server which is running cygwin).  

It may be that the server beeps, thinking it is a console session, when
in fact we have remote session.  Yet we are 
echoing the ^G out to the display device, the terminal, so would expect
the terminal to beep.  

Perhaps significant is a third-party product is used here.  SL-Net
allows us to telnet into our windows server, to login and 
run a cygwin shell, all done so that our software can run in an
environment similar to how we use Unix, even though the server is
Windows 2000.

Kind Regards  
Jim Gelasakis


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