Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 12:11:51 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel AT gmx DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: how to get a visual bell for bash and man ?
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On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> case VISIBLE_BELL:
>    if (visible_bell)
>      {
>        tputs (visible_bell, 1, _rl_output_character_function);
>        break;
>      }

`tputs' is a function that needs to be emulated in DJGPP (since
there's no built-in `termcap' functionality in the DOS console
driver).  If the ported `tputs' calls the library function
`ScreenVisualBell', like it should, then the visible bell will work in
Bash.