How to start a system “beep”, from the built-in pc speaker, using a batch file?

Question

I have written a batch script in an interactive mode, for making some tasks.

Sometimes, These tasks takes a long time to be finished, and then the batch asks if the

Answer 1

I think the better solution is echoing a ^G to a file from the cmd prompt and then type that file from within the script, that way you don't need to include control characteres in the batch file itself:

C:\> echo ^G>beep.snd

Now there's an ASCII 007 char in the "beep.snd" file, then from your .bat file all you have to do is type it or copy to the screen:

type beep.snd

or

copy beep.snd con > nul