> On 10/5/2025 12:31 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > The beep happens if you are at the FreeCOM command line and try to do > > tab completion for when there's more than one thing to complete. For > > example, my C:\ directory has FDAUTO.000, FDAUTO.BAT, and FDCONFIG.SYS > > .. so that's 3 things that start "FD". If I type: > > [..] > > > > To answer Ronald's question: this is a BIOS beep, so you should be > > able to go into your BIOS config and set the volume or turn it off > > entirely. I'm not sure about DOSBox, but you can probably set an > > option to control the beep volume level.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > Well, I never have used any command line completion like that.. 😕 > > But if that is a FreeCOM feature, why would that happen in DOSBOX? > You can run DOSBox as a virtual machine, so I think that's what Ronald is doing. I'm unclear if DOSBox actually boots the FreeDOS kernel when you run DOSBox as a virtual machine host, or if it runs its own built-in "DOS" kernel. But at the user level, it's running FreeCOM as the shell and all the FreeDOS utilities as its userspace. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
