From: madhu on
I am using suse 10.3. when ever I used : alias beep="echo -en
\"\\007\""
echo
-ne $'\a'
I am not getting the beep sound.
I turned the beep on by using xset b on.but it is not working.
I also used tput bel but not not working.

could any one please help me about the beep and also the tput
command......
From: hume.spamfilter on
madhu <madhu.smartguy90(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using suse 10.3. when ever I used : alias beep="echo -en
> \"\\007\""

Sounds like your OS is broken. You should reformat and install Solaris, and
let us know if it works then. (Warning: may cause data loss...)

Or, you can ask on a Linux newsgroup.

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