# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| beep: beep (does exactly what you would expect: it beeps) beep: beep: Unlike printf("\a"), beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and beep: repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow beep: more granularity than one would otherwise have. It is controlled beep: completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be beep: complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever beep: else it gets hacked onto) that much more informative. beep: beep: You may need to set beep executable suid. beep: