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+## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} beep ()
+## Produce a beep from the speaker (or visual bell).
+## @seealso{puts, fputs, printf, fprintf}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function beep ()
+
+ if (nargin != 0)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ puts ("\a");
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!error (beep (1))