Trivial Feature Request: beep()

[Brian Gallew]

Harold L Hunt said:
> What version of Cygwin/XFree86 do you have?

4.2.0 as installed by setup.

> Specifically, it appears that Test54 was the release that first had
> a working keyboard bell:
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/changelog.html

Well, echo a ^G doesn't DTRT.  Neither does "echo -e \\a".  I've got a
GTK+ application (running on another machine and displayed locally)
which beeps just fine elsewhere, but not under xfree/cygwin.