Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!swatsun!swatsun!gessel From: gessel@masada.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Attaching sounds to actions? Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 91 16:02:24 GMT References: <992@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1991Jan24.025448.1705@macc.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Distribution: na Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Lines: 43 In-Reply-To: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 02:54:48 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: masada >When I'm not at my desk (where >the NeXT is), like from home at the moment, I reach it by >dialing in to a VMS Vax, then rlogin to the NeXT over the >campus ethernet. >I'd get a true on both those tests and pass the *.snd file >to the terminal (eek), right? I don't think so. I think it would play it on the machine you had logged into. People might think you were in your office. If you put stuff in like "get your hands off me!" you might scare off some burglars if you happen to log in at just the right moment :-). Seriously, I think this is covered by the public sound server control in Preferences (or Workspace Manager?). I would say try it out, but I suspect that if the public sound server is on, anyone logged in from anywhere can play and send the console sounds over a tcp-ip connection (the same way you can run your program on another machine and have it send window server commands to your NeXT). If not, I suspect that only the person logged into the Console itself has the right to send sounds through the sound port. This may, however, only be for recording, (blocking recording from another machine, or a remote user). If you get a chance to test this out, please let us know (or if it's well documented somewhere, I'd like to know where.) The above gives me an interesting idea. Port NeXTStep to crays and big number crunchers that exist around. Not the window server, just NeXTStep. Run your programs there, using your screen only as a window server. You can do this with X, why not NeXTStep. I can just see the mandelbrot app ported off the DSP to a cray (and in color too, once those machines get out). Fire up 64 bits of precision at 200 MFLOPS or whatever they put out these days . . . Dan -- Daniel Mark Gessel Independent Software Consultant Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu and Developer I do not represent Swarthmore College (thank God).