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From: abaum (Allen Baum)
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Subject: using those sound chips
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Date: 31 May 91 09:07:15 GMT
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In article <14251@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:

>So, here's an obligatory architectural musing: How about those sound
>chips?  ........  For instance, we can introduce a new escaped
>character in C strings "\h", for "Humor" (similar to "\a" for "Audible
>Alert"), which will cause the sound chip to emit a chuckle.

Actually, someone has an application/font/? for the Mac called
'audio font' or something. It lets you record a sound for each
character. When you do something to the character (like underline
it, or something), it plays back the sound.