Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 23:12:07 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to play an *.au file? Message-ID: <199512020712.XAA00999@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <m0tLk6m-0002W5C@tao.thought.org> from "Gary D. Kline" at Dec 1, 95 09:03:30 pm
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> > On my Sun at work I've got a neat *.au of Big Ben sounding, and a script > that sounds the bong on the hour. The script uses the sun ``play'' > binary, but I haven't found anything equivalent on my 2.0.5 CD ROM. > > So what's the FreeBSD equivalent? When I cat the file to /dev/audio, > it hangs... Well do you have an audio board in your machine? has it been configured into the kernel? if not (A) you can still do audio (at Lo-Fi) by compiling in the pcaudio device (pca) and CATting the file to /dev/pcaudio recognisable sound but bretty poor quality though (from that tiny speeker that goes 'Beep' sometimes..) > > Thanks for any tips. > > -- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public access uNix > >
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