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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mute should reset?
Message-ID: <296@wet.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 20:52:41 GMT
References: <1989Jul14.151221.13930@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <3703@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <3703@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@Jessica.UUCP (Rick Wong) writes:
|In article <1989Jul14.151221.13930@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> nishri@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Alex Nishri) writes:
|>It would be nice if the "mute" state was reset when one logged out.  Failing
|>that, it would be nice if there were a visual indication that "mute" had been
|>activated.
|>
|>I have seen people think the sound was broken on a NeXT when in fact the last
|>person to use it had pushed the "mute" key.
|
|One thing that irritates me is that, when the mute is on, pressing the volume
|keys doesn't turn the mute off.  Geez, even my TV does that right.
|
|Yet another case of programmers thinking like programmers . . .
|
|Rick "Just-getting-in-my-snide-remark-for-the-day" Wong
|rick@jessica.stanford.edu

The NeXT does The Right Thing(tm)--you're just confused about
what Mute does.  Mute nukes the speakers.  The headphone jack
still works, and the volume controls still work.  Turning the
speaker back on when touching the volume keys is entirely the
wrong thing to do when you have a cluster of colocated NeXTs (as
we do).  The "walkperson-compatible headphone jack" was one of
the brightest things NeXT did.  I found unacceptable high-end
noise when I plugged Sony MDR-V6s in, though--might have been
just that particular cube.  I agree, there should be some sort of
visual indication.  (Snoop through the include files sometime--
apparently there are/were plans to support LEDs).  You might
consider canceling Mute with a LoginHook.

					-=EPS=- / SFSU