BELL

Command

BELL -- Display / Set bell times.

Synopsis

BE[ll] [h,h h-h]

Description

The BELL command is used to display and set the hours during which the console bells will sound. These are the two tone connection (low->high) and disconnection (high->low) bells, the 4 tone (Star Trek doorbell) sysop paging sound, and the various bells associated with sysop chat. Console bells use the PC speaker, not the soundcard.

Options

When used without arguments, the current setting is displayed.

To set the bell times, the times may be supplied either as a series of single hours, or in one or more ranges of times e.g. "8-22", or as combinations of the two.

Examples

BELL 12         - Bells only between 12:00 and 12:59
BELL 0-4, 12-23 - Allow bells between midday and 4am next day.

Caveats

Whatever the BELL setting, the console may still bleep if the sysop tries to exceed a line length or delete back beyond the start of a line.

Notes

The default bell times are 08:00 to 22:59 inclusive. The BELL command may be used in BOOTCMDS.SYS to override this Alternatively the BELL= directive can be used in XROUTER.CFG, like so...

# Acceptable bell hours, format n,n,n-n n etc
BELL=0-5,11-23

Availability

Sysop-only.