Re: tail.exe and speaker

[Eric Blake]

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The fact that you wrote to the obsolete bug-textutils address implies that
you are probably due for an upgrade; perhaps using a newer version of
coreutils will solve the problem for you.  The latest stable version is
5.97, or you can try the experimental 6.1.

According to Mattson, Russell on 8/23/2006 2:22 PM:
> Hello Support,
> 
>  
> 
> When I run tail.exe -f xxxx in a command window it causes the PC speaker
> to beep non-stop until the window is closed.

This is probably caused by trying to pipe a binary file to the terminal,
which happened to have embedded byte sequences that the terminal parsed as
a control sequence to start a beep, and less likely to be an actual bug in
tail.  Perhaps you will have more luck asking the upstream distributor
that provided you with the tail.exe binary what they suggest you can do,
as this list knows very little about Windows terminal issues.  The cygwin
community might also be a resource to try.

> 
> Is there any way to stop this?

Don't call tail in the first place if it is on a file that causes the problem?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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