From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gijs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sound Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:20:32 +0100 Organization: Distributed Message-ID: <87y8dna3nz.fsf@boron.hillenius.net> References: <87y8dohlq3.fsf@boron.hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108729654 2305 80.91.229.2 (18 Feb 2005 12:27:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:27:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 18 13:27:33 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D27Co-0008Fm-Ci for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:26:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D27T9-0002ay-0c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:42:51 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Sid X-GPGP-Fingerprint: 0D0B 9C67 0520 3B27 A91C 369B 7154 1B0A 04CF 3929 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pqqjvs3X6z8KiiimyXY4ZiE1CZU= Original-Lines: 32 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.211.135.18 Original-X-Trace: news4.telebyte.nl 1108730244 213.211.135.18 (18 Feb 2005 13:37:24 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!tudelft.nl!news4.telebyte.nl!news3.telebyte.nl!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128630 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24161 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24161 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Gijs >> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:56:20 +0100 >> >> But (for example) >> Welcome to the Emacs shell >> ~ $ play file.wav >> >> works >> >> Why!? Does Emacs handle sound by its own, bypassing the OS? >I don't know what you meant by ``bypassing the OS''. Emacs uses the >OS interface to the sound device (ioctl, write, etc. system calls), >but if you were asking whether it calls the `play' utility internally, >then no, it doesn't. However, the system calls Emacs issues to play >the sound are supposed to be the equivalent of what `play' does. Thanks Eli, Rephrasing the question, any idea of why this (Debian) emacs won't play this sound file? Regards Gijs -- Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your own ZIPCODE?