[plt-scheme] ring my chimes

On Dec 12, michael rice wrote:
> Thanks for all the help.
> 
> I'm sure there are excellent reasons for putting the
> bell ringing code at
> 
> (require (lib "mred.ss" "mred"))
> 
> BUT, (imho) making a sound to alert the user that
> something is amiss is so basic that one would think it
> would be available no matter what language package has
> been selected.

Ringing the bell is a GUI functionality...  On some OSs[*] you can
just (fprintf (current-error-port) "\a") if you want that from a plain
console.

([*] That requires an actual console somewhere that will beep.  If
you're on Linux, it gets trickier every minute to actually have a
working beep.  #&^@!& GUI.)

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