beep allows the user to control the pc-speaker with precision, allowing different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run quite happily on the command line, it's intended place of residence is within shell/perl scripts, notifying the user when something interest- ing occurs. Of course, it has no notion of what's interesting, but it's real good at that notifying part.
It runs from the command line, tone pitch and duration are controlled by its arguments.
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beep allows the user to control the pc-speaker with precision, allowing
different sounds to indicate different events. While it can be run
quite happily on the command line, it's intended place of residence is
within shell/perl scripts, notifying the user when something interest-
ing occurs. Of course, it has no notion of what's interesting, but
it's real good at that notifying part.
It runs from the command line, tone pitch and duration are controlled by its arguments.