Batch sounds.

[Boozu]

I want to make simple beeps and boops in a batch program withought having to call a audio file. Is there any way to do that? I want it so I can output Morse code. Why? Just because it would be cool.

[Two-eyes]

You can write ECHO followed by ALT+7. (on the number pad).  On my system I can write ^G (control+G), and it does the same thing.

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ECHO ^G
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EDIT: but that is only one sound...

[Boozu]

That did absolutely nothing. Anything else?

[Two-eyes]

what did you do exactly?

[gpl]

For morse, you would be restricted to dahs only !
At least in the UK you could spell MOT (and TOM)

[Boozu]

Two-eyes: I did echo "^G" "alt+7" and "•" <The symbol derived from pressing alt and then 7. I got no change at all.

gpl: If by dahs you mean a short beeps then that is not a big deal. If there is no way to lengthen the duration of the sound then I will do something like this with the beeps.   . . . ... ... ... . . .   Basically putting a distinguishable pause in bitween a single beep and a line of beeps.

[Two-eyes]

I see.  When i press alt+7 it shows "^G".  In your case, it shows that dot.
Well, i know that 7 is the ascii code for the bell..... I'm sorry, but I don't know why it isn't working for you.  Be sure you press the number pad's 7 (although I bet you did, cos the dot was shown).

Try control+G and see what happens.

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[Boozu]

That did not work but on the ascii table (I just learned about this thing this afternoon, haha) under Oct it says 007. I tried that and I immediately heard a ding but it did not put out a symbol in the batch file so I tried alt+007 but nothing happend. So how can I tell the batch file to do the equivalent of alt+007?

[Two-eyes]

Ahhh, I see.  Were you trying in a batch file?  I was trying on the command prompt itself.  When I tried to write alt+7 in a batch file, I couldn't.  Then I tried this:

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c:\>COPY CON bell.bat
@ECHO off

ECHO [and here I pressed alt+7, and the ^G symbol appeared]
[I pressed ctrl+Z and this symbol appeared: ^Z, then I pressed ENTER]

When I ran the batch file the bell was heard:

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c:\>bell.bat
[bell was heard]
c:\>

When I open the batch file in notepad, after ECHO, there was a symbol that represents a non-printable character (a box.  Can't paste it here ).

So what you can do is this:
1) use COPY CON to insert one "bell"
2) open the batch file in notepad(or whatever), and whenever you want to output the sound, copy the symbol and paste it

hope this helped

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PS. If you didn't understand anything (which i bet you didn't  ...cos, sry, but... I'm that way), just tell me, but please don't curse me to heck 

[Two-eyes]

I also, just discovered this:

In the EDIT window, you can press ctrl+p to insert a special character...so you can do this:
ECHO [control+p] [alt+7].  Unfortunately, you can't do that in notepad

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[Boozu]

Ok. I am totally lost. What do I have to do? The ctrl+z is paste  and ctrl+p is print so what are thous supposed to do? You said something about not being able to do it in notepad and that you did hear something at one point right? So how do I do that? One more question, when you say ^G and ^Z do you literally mean the "^" symbol and the letter "G" and the same for the other or is the combination supposed to mean something?

[Two-eyes]

Ok...very sorry...I need to learn how to communicate.

The ctrl+z is paste  and ctrl+p is print so what are thous supposed to do?

!!!I was not working in notepad, but in the command prompt!!!

I gave it this command: COPY CON [filename]
and then wrote ECHO [alt+7], ENTER
[ctrl+Z], ENTER

One more question, when you say ^G and ^Z do you literally mean the "^" symbol and the letter "G" and the same for the other or is the combination supposed to mean something?

no, I didn't mean "^" and "G" but [ctrl+G] and those symbols APPEARED. Same for Z.

What do I have to do?

So again:
1) in the command prompt do this:

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C:\>COPY CON bell.bat
@ECHO off

ECHO [alt+7]
[ctrl+Z]

C:\>bell.bat
[sound is heard]
C:\>

2) THEN you can open bell.bat in notepad, and copy the (NEW) symbol as many times as you want, adding pauses, etc.

You said something about not being able to do it in notepad

Forget that...it was just an extra note.

Hope that's better,
Two-Eyes %

[Boozu]

That is so weird. Manually doing the exact same thing does not work. So I copied it many times and it only gave me one beep but then I did this:

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@echo off

echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
pause
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 
echo 

And I got 4 beeps and once a button was pressed I got 1 more beep. Funny. Now I will play with pauses insted of making the person running it press a button. Does that make since? Thanks for the help. Once I get it to a point that I like, I will upload the file for you guys to try.

[Two-eyes]

It worked for me.... 

Thanks, looking forward for the program, i suggest you use sleep.exe for pauses, but i don't know if it can part-seconds 

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[Salmon Trout]

i suggest you use sleep.exe for pauses, but i don't know if it can part-seconds

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C:\>sleep /?
Usage:  sleep      time-to-sleep-in-seconds
        sleep [-m] time-to-sleep-in-milliseconds
        sleep [-c] commited-memory ratio (1%-100%)

There are 1000 milliseconds in 1 second.