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# 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: