Subj : Apoint: keep silent - how? SOLUTION: hack
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 25 2019 19:18:45

Hello Martin!

On 4/25/2019, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

MF> Yes, I can see now that it's connected with messages to me. Thanks for 
MF> the heads-up.

AA>> Not a show stopper.

MF> I agree but nevertheless I find it somewhat irritating.


You'd think that maybe there would have been a consideration to allow 
configuring the audio for the beep.   I mean, there are certainly a lot of 
options for fonts and colours.  But the audio was overlooked?  :(

I actually *do* have Windows Sounds disabled.  Sound Scheme=No Sounds.  But 
Apoint forces one out.  Maybe they're doing it with an Ascii BEL char, or ^G ?

I'm going to try this little trick at the CMD line: 

        net stop beep

[some time passes..]

YEP.  That works!  I had a few unread messages addressed to me in another echo, 
and I didn't hear a peep!

Added BONUS:  no more beep at the EOF in the OXP editor!


.../|ug

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