How to Make WinBatch Scripts Beep

Keywords: beep	 

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Question:

Is there a way to send a "Beep" to my PC speaker?

Note: this question is specifically directed to the internal PC Speaker, not the normal multimedia soundcards and speakers on modern equipment. For those, the built in WinBatch BEEP command will cause a beep....

Answer:

You can write a DOS batch file that beeps by doing the following- at the DOS prompt type:

	echo @echo (Alt-7)>beep.bat 

but instead of typing the characters: "(Alt-7)", you hold down the Alt key and press 7 on the numeric keypad.

Don't use the 7 on the qwerty part of the keyboard, it has to be on the keypad, and Num Lock has to be on.

The effect of this is to output the characters:"@echo " followed by a non-ASCII character with a decimal value of 7, into a new file called beep.bat

If you put beep.bat in a directory on your PATH, you can make your winbatch files beep by adding:

RunIcon("beep.bat","") 

to your *.wbt file.

You'll probably want to set the properties for the beep.bat DOS window to close on exit too.

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Article ID:   W13218

Filename:   Make WinBatch Scripts Beep.txt