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From: jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 7300's speaker sounds/beeps/etc
Message-ID: <60@cjsa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 12:41:17 EST
Article-I.D.: cjsa.60
Posted: Sat Nov 28 12:41:17 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 04:02:58 EST
References: <877@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates - New Haven, CT
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Summary: Trouble with beeps
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.att:1905

In article <877@cblpf.ATT.COM>, dar@cblpf.ATT.COM (David A. Roth) writes:
> 
> A strange thing happened that I can't explain or reproduce.
> I was using my UNIX-PC
> in vi and noticed that the 'bells' that sound when you hit the escape
> key sounded very different. Almost like a buzzer instead of the beep
> you normally hear.

On the UNIX-PC, the beep (ie. bell) is generated through the built-in modem
speaker.  The problem with this is that there is a conflict when uucico
is running through the modem.  The distorted buzz you heard in place of the
normal beep occurs when uucico data transfer is operating in the background.
(Such as when your feed site transfers news.)  The problem I have found is
that the "beep" generated by the application program distorts the data
being transferred - just like noise in the line.  The transfer programs 
attempt to recover from this bell/noise, but if you keep at it long and
hard and make the bell ring too often, uucico will just quit and terminate
the data transfer.

The best solution I have found to the problem is to attempt to relegate
data traffic through the built-in modem to the wee hours of the night
when there is little keyboard activity.  Of course, you can always become
a better typist and just stop vi from complaining :-).
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