UNTITLED() LOCAL UNTITLED() NAME beep -- emit tone from console speaker SYNOPSIS beep [-v] [-d <device>] [-p <pitch>] [<duration>] beep -h beep -V DESCRIPTION beep causes a tone to be emitted from the console speaker. The following options are available: -V Display version of beep. -v Verbose mode. Print details of the tone to stderr before playing. -d Specify the device to use. The default is usually /dev/speaker. -h Display usage message. -p Specify the pitch of the tone in Hz. The default is usually 800Hz. The optional operand can be used to specify the duration of the tone in centi-seconds. The default is usually 5cs. FILES /dev/speaker default console speaker device DIAGNOSTICS beep prints diagnostic messages to stderr. In addition beep may exit with with the following codes: EX_OK All was aparently successful. EX_USAGE The flags or operands specified were incorrect or a parameter was out of range. EX_OSFILE The speaker device specified could not be opened. This may be be- cause of a permission problem, the device not being configured in the running kernel or some other such error. EX_IOERR A problem occured while trying to play the tone or close the speaker device afterwards. SEE ALSO kbdcontrol(1), speaker(4) HISTORY beep was developed under FreeBSD 4.6. AUTHORS beep was written by Andrew Stevenson <andrew@ugh.net.au>. BUGS None known. UgH! June 9, 2002 BEEP(1)
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