From 4e66159b1201063154b6a19bccbfa549a093d4ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gnubien Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:00:13 +0200 Subject: misc/beep: Initial import --- misc/beep/slack-desc | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 misc/beep/slack-desc (limited to 'misc/beep/slack-desc') diff --git a/misc/beep/slack-desc b/misc/beep/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..27266c8028 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/beep/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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 more +beep: granularity than one would otherwise have. It is controlled completely +beep: through command line options. It's not supposed to be complex, and it +beep: isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever else it gets hacked +beep: onto) that much more informative. +beep: +beep: You may need to set beep executable suid. +beep: -- cgit v1.2.3