How to produce beep sound using “\a” escape character?

Question

If I write the following program, then there is no beep sound on running the code.

#include 
int main()
{ 
    printf(\"\\a\");
    return 0;
         


        

Answer 1

I agree with @Steve Jessop. People will go to great lengths to keep their computers quiet.

In Windows: As an alternative to "\a", you could use WinAPI's Beep command. If you are using Windows 7, this may not work as expected.

Beep Function (Windows)