Alert non-graphocal symbol ?

[cppuser]

Hi guys,
does anyone know about the alert symbol in strings ? - "\a".
It is said that it will produce a beep sound when encountered :
count << "some test beep here \a\n" .

I tried it with Visual C++ but there is no beep here. :)
Any ideas ?

[helios]

Can't remember what '\a' does and can't find a reference, but if we assume that it does do that, then it's most likely you don't have a system speaker.

[cppuser]

The C++ Programming language, p91 section String Literals.
I use Toshiba laptop and I think it have a system speaker...

But I may be wrong of course.

[Return 0]

\a should beep, are you sure you don't have your sound muted? :)

[Incubbus]

its because laptops dont have the same internal beepers , that normal desktop computers have...

it only works for desktops

[cppuser]

Ah, I figured it out. :)
It beeped for me, too. :)
The problem was that this was the first time I use Visual C++... I forgot to include stdio. Whatever.

Thanks anyway guys