Re: gperiodic

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Kyle Burton wrote:
> 
> what are .au files?  what's their format?  do I have to translate them into
> the raw audio foramt, or can they ben directly cat'ted to /dev/dsp?
> 
> you can do this with wav files:
> 
> [user@host dir]$ cat file.wav > /dev/dsp

.au files are Sun workstation audio files; they _are_ the raw audio
format, so far as I know.  You can get more from:

<http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html>
<http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.html>

about using various audio formats on Linux.

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