Re: Error and correction beeps

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> > Does anyone know how exactly Xy interacts with a sound card to
> produce error and correction beeps?
>
> Maybe I'm not following you here, Patricia, but I don't think Xy --
> or most DOS app.s, for that matter -- have any interaction with the
> sound card; rather, what sounds they do produce are sent out through
> the built-in PC speaker. If you have an added-in sound card, for
> which you've had to disable a built-in sound CHIP on the motherboard
> (which would otherwise take the place of a sound card) the situation
> gets more murky. There are sound cards that just don't do Midi or a
> DOS session in OS/2 (more of a driver issue, I'd imagine), but I
> wouldn't think that would be the case for Win.
>
> Jordan
>