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Using the DOS command TYPE for some files you can hear a sound, then (in some cases) the process displaying the file's content stops (few characters later). This is my start point idea to play a sound in DOS.

From an Excel file (.xls) I extracted a character playing a sound, and I surrounded it by letter 'a' and 'b' in this file: http://airfirst.ch/b2/SoundChar.txt
In fact, it is just the BELL character in the ASCII table:
http://www.asciitable.com

So, here is a way to play a system sound in DOS:

where the character after "ECHO " is this BELL character. It looks like a big dot (in EditPlus editor).

Do you know another way to play a sound in DOS?
Any comment, improvement will be appreciate.
Thanks.

"System sound" means sound played by motherboard's speaker, so you can hear it without external speakers or sound card.

budhax,
Nice! You can create the bell character directly with your keyboard, i.e. on the command line type:

[ALT+7] - hold down the ALT key, type '7' on the number pad, release the ALT key.
On my box [ALT+7] shows up as:
However typing '^G' is not the same.

Thanks for sharing!

Interesting, but I can't reproduce your success.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Toshiba Satellite A105 X86-based PC

A beeper we made years ago ... guess we were bored

I like using .wav files in my dos scripts

sndrec32.exe /play /close ringin.wav

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Skeletor,
I searched a little more and found the /embedding flag allow to run it without UI:

sndrec32.exe /embedding /play /close "C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Startup.wav"

What a beauty - thanks for sharing!



carlitos.dll,
Very interesting. Question: Why do you need expand command, can't the EXE be create directly?
It should be possible to create any binary file, like WAV files. Any examples?