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Re: DECstation audio/XMedia

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From: Christian Huitema
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:31
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In article <1992Sep9.123549.21521@PA.dec.com>, neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
> Christian Huitema writes (forgot where):
> 
> >>Except one little detail. The first thing that "audioserver" does is to try to
> >>connect to the local X server, and it aborts if it cannot.
> 
> No. I checked and it never connects to X in it's whole lifetime.
> 

I stand corrected. I was fooled by the "cannot connect to server foobar:0"
message displayed by the "play" command when it cannot get in touch with the
audio server. The identification "foobar:0" looks very much like an X-Window
interface identication, but it is in fact that of the audio server.

> Apart from that, I will try to do my best...

So we will abstain from making more noise -).

Christian Huitema
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Subject: Re: DECstation audio/XMedia
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