>its independent.
>"set bell to wavefile" : fires always the computer bell even if "set bell off" or "on".
>(one case can be the computer bell is out of service ! "

OK so it's obvious I never used the feature :). When I started coding, there were a few XT boxes around where people thought it would be cool for it to beep on each .lostfocus()... which everyone hated. So we decided using the 'bell' would be rude and never did it.