From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Dec  9 10:44:36 1994
Subject: Re: Newbie would like to play audio files created in octave 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: roberts at doublon dot unice dot fr (Tony Roberts)
cc: ric at updike dot sri dot com (Richard Steinberger), help-octave@che.utexas.edu
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 94 10:44:18 CST

roberts at doublon dot unice dot fr (Tony Roberts) wrote:

: >Can anyone help an octave newbie with this?  I would like to be able to
: >play (through /dev/audio or other machine-dependent device) files
: >of signals I create, import or modify in the octave environment.
: 
: I guess one possibility is to use the shell_cmd function to execute the sun
: audiotool.  You woud presumably have to write the sound out to a scratch
: file before audiotool could play it.  I do a similar thing for plotting via
: xgraph (because I do not have access to gnuplot here).

Version 1.1 will have some new functions for reading and writing
binary files that should help to make things like this a bit easier.

jwe