Re: sound

[Gijs]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 >> From: Gijs <gijs@afake-address.tv>
 >> 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

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