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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: SoundPlayer in .login, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.002608.27643@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 00:26:08 GMT
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Today I played with sound :-), and here's what happens.

Having made a suitable *.snd file that says, "Hi, there"
I put this as the last line of my .login:

sndplay /Users/anderson/etc/hi_there.snd

This works exactly as you would expect from the NeXT, to
general mirth of visitors in the office.

If I rlogin from somewhere else, the (I guess restricted)
shell produces a diagnostic when it gets to that line:

sndplay: can't play soundfile: /Users/anderson/etc/hi_there.snd

So, I would say the system knows something one could use to
test and not make the call under the rlogin case.  He or she
who knows, please do tell.

<> It does not do to leave a dragon out of your calculations,
<> if you live near him. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
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