autool - audio play/record tool compatible with
audiotool
audiotool [-audio
servername] [-volume
percent] [-display
displayname] [-geom geometry
] filename
The
autool program is a replacement for the Sun
audiotool program
used to send audio files to Network Audio System servers. It can be used
either by making a symbolic link name
audiotool that points to
autool and is before the OpenWindows version or by changing the
OpenWindows deskset bindings database with the
binder(1) command.
The following options may be used with the
autool program:
-
-audio servername
- This option specifies the Network Audio System server on
which the files should be played.
-
-volume 0-100
- This option specifies the volume at which the data should
be played as a percentage of the maximum possible volume. The default is
10 percent.
-
-display displayname
- This option specifies the X Window System on which the
control panel should be displayed.
-
-geom geometry
- This option specifies the position and size of the control
panel.
OpenWindows users can configure deskset applications to use
autool to
play audio files through following steps:
- 1.
- Run the deskset configuration program binder.
- 2.
- Locate the entry in the scrolling list named
audio-file click on it once with the left mouse button.
- 3.
- From the Props menu, select the Icon... entry
with the right mouse button.
- 4.
- Click on the button marked (+) in the lower right
corner with the left mouse button. This will expand the window, adding
another panel to the right.
- 5.
- On the line marked Application in the panel on the
right, change ``audiotool'' to ``autool'' (you will need to specify a full
path name if you have not installed autool in a directory in your
path). The initial volume (which is a percentage relative to the recorded
level; the default is 10) can be increased by inserting the ``-v
percent'' option between ``autool'' and ``$FILE''.
- 6.
- Press the Apply button in the left panel.
- 7.
- Back in the main binder window, press the
Save button in the upper left corner.
- 8.
- Restart any deskset applications such as filemgr to
have the updated values take effect.
Double clicking in
filemgr on file names that end in
.snd will now
cause
autool to invoked.
The following environment variables are used by
autool:
- AUDIOSERVER
- This variable specifies the default audio server to contact
if -audio is not specified on the command line.
- DISPLAY
- If AUDIOSERVER is not set, this variable is examined
to find the name of the corresponding X Window System display.
nas(1)
Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.
Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.