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From: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
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Subject: [xpert] Re:  xcdplayer; a program to play audio cd discs on suns
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Date: 9 Jan 91 02:20:29 GMT
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Archive-name: hardware/cd-rom/cdplayer/1991-01-05
Archive: larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu:/X/cdplayer.shar [132.206.4.3]
Original-posting-by: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Original-subject: Re:  xcdplayer; a program to play audio cd discs on suns
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

> This is a very minimal program to control the CD-ROM drive on a Sun
> workstation for playing audio discs and using the headphone jack.
> [...] It uses the Athena widgets.  It's in the contrib directory on
> expo.lcs.mit.edu.

A non-widget-based program with much more elaborate functionality is on
the anonymous ftp area of 132.206.1.1 (X/cdplayer.shar).

Of course, the same caveats about Suns apply: you need a recent version
of the OS (known to build on SPARCs running 4.1).  Documentation is
basically nonexistent, but there isn't much to document except
command-line options, which are all collected together in one routine
in the source.

					der Mouse

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