de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) (02/20/91)
Anyone have a working audio xbiff? I was unable to get either the
recently-posted dbiff or the audio-xbiff on expo to compile cleanly
and work correctly. The best I came up with was one that did
everything except play sounds correctly: it just made unhealthy
clicking noises. (Why doesn't xbiff just do a `system ("cat file
>/dev/audio")'?)
What would be *really* nice is an audio xbiff for a regular (non-MIT
R4) OpenWindows machine.
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Workstation Support has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.stevens@canada.ctr.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens) (02/21/91)
In article <1991Feb19.171235.4893@cs.utk.edu>, de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: |> Anyone have a working audio xbiff? I was unable to get either the |> recently-posted dbiff or the audio-xbiff on expo to compile cleanly As far as I know, audio-xbiff was written under SunOS 4.0.3 and has not been updated for 4.1, which modified the audio interface. --andy s.
tgades@skadi.physics.stolaf.edu (Anthony M Gades) (02/24/91)
In article <1991Feb19.171235.4893@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: >Anyone have a working audio xbiff? I was unable to get either the I too would like one (a working audio Xbiff) preferably one that uses a simple system call to make the sound (so i could put in my own play sounds program). tgades@stolaf.edu (Tony Gades)
fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) (02/24/91)
In article <1991Feb23.234709.20600@acc.stolaf.edu> tgades@skadi.physics.stolaf.edu (Anthony M Gades) writes: > In article <1991Feb19.171235.4893@cs.utk.edu> de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes: >>Anyone have a working audio xbiff? I was unable to get either the > I too would like one (a working audio Xbiff) preferably one that uses > a simple system call to make the sound (so i could put in my own play > sounds program). An audio version of xbiff is available on expo.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory (as xbiff++.tar.Z). It supports 4.0.3 and 4.1 sound format and allows you to attach a different sound to messages with different heads (so that you can play a specific sound when you get mail on a certain subject or from a certain user for instance). I have it running on my SPARC. It works fine. Regards, Frank -- Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921
melby@pappa.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John Melby) (03/04/91)
>>>Anyone have a working audio xbiff? I was unable to get either the > >> I too would like one (a working audio Xbiff) preferably one that uses >> a simple system call to make the sound (so i could put in my own play >> sounds program). > >An audio version of xbiff is available on expo.lcs.mit.edu in the >contrib directory (as xbiff++.tar.Z). Of course, the simplest way to get a sound out of xpbiff and its ilk is to replace the XSync(XtDisplay(toplevel), 0); line with a system call such as system("cat %s > /dev/audio") where %s is the mu-law (.au) file. I use XGetDefault to take the "xbiff.bellFile" resource and, if it is non-empty, use it as the file name. This, of course, is left as an exercise to the reader. :-) Of course, if your program has the suid-bit set, you will want to use something more secure than system(). ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp