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.
Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.
Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.