Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!hsi!cjsa!jeff 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 Lines: 27 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 :-). -- Jeffery Small (203) 776-2000 UUCP: uunet!---\ C. Jeffery Small and Associates ihnp4!--- hsi!cjsa!jeff 123 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 hao!noao!---/