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Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 03:10:24PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	The software I wrote doesn't predate oss but some
> documentation I red years ago that probably does predate oss was
> what I used to wrige some C routines that send and receive sound
> plus use ioctl to set, say, /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp1 for stereo at
> 32000 samples per second.
> 
> 	I used that to make a stereo sound card record 2
> independent 8-K 8-bit audio channels from two radio scanners
> 
> 	Music stinks when recorded that way but scanner audio has
> such a limited pass band that it sounds pretty decent.
> 
> 	Many thanks.
> 
> > It also pointed me to <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp>,
> > if that's of any help.
> 
> 	I will save this message and also learn the correct way
> to send and receive audio these days.

I think that 'sox' which can also be called as 'play' or 'rec'
is what you want.

Use rec to record from sound-input, and sox to split it by
channel into two files.

-dsr-

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Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-30 19:20 +0200
  Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-08-30 22:20 +0200
    Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-08-31 00:10 +0200
    Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2018-08-31 10:00 +0200
      Re: Debian Stretch Am Confused about /dev/dsp Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2018-08-31 10:20 +0200

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