Need Linux and dos help please!!

I'm hoping you geniuses can help me, I've looked online, in my text book and my notes and can't find it anywhere. Here's what I need to do, set my Linux (cygwin) prompt to be my name followed by a ‘>’ and the bell/keyboard sound with each prompt. And the dos is almost the same, set the DOS prompt to be my name followed by the current date and a ‘>’.

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

for DOS
prompt /? will give you your available options.
In your case you should write something like, prompt your_name$D$G

for linux, in my /etc/skel/.bashrc there is the following directive

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

but that's as far as I can help.

About the "bell" sounds, I have no clues in either case.

Woot! The dos thing worked. Thank you.

Now for the damn linux.......grr. I put in exactly what you had and nothing. Here's a copy of it.

$ PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

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Nevermind about the PROMPT_COMMAND thing.
try this instead

PS1='\a\d my_name_here>'

\a is for the bell
\d is for the date

use man bash to read more about the prompt (or man sh or whichever shell you use)

That worked! Thank you so much. You totally rock!!