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From: jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about C sound capabilities
Keywords: help
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Date: 10 Mar 89 10:40:23 GMT
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In article <16574@cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) groovily writes:
>In article <1917@cveg.uucp> arb2@hcx.uucp (BOB BARKER) writes:
>>
>> I am new to the C language, and I would like to know if the language has    
>> the capability to produce sound, or more specificly music.
>
>Uhh...depends a lot on the hardware.  On an Amiga, or an Atari, sure can.
 
uhh... C as a language has *no* capability of producing sound,
regardless of the hardware you're using. C has *no* I/O operations
defined in the language (as opposed to something disgusting like
BAS*C). I/O is taken care of by library functions or system calls.

*If* you have a machine that does support sound, and *if* the libraries
for your computer have sound routines that can be accessed from C as
function calls, then you're set. But C alone won't help you at all...

John.
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