Re: sound() in Octave

[Francesco Potortì]

>Sound in Octave does not work unless you have an old Linux
>installation that allows you to directly write to /dev/dsp. It may be
>easier to use wavwrite to save your sound files and play them with an
>external program.

I see this on my system:

$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 14, 3 Sep 26 16:16 /dev/dsp

It seems that all one needs to do as user "thisismyself" is something like

$ sudo adduser thisismyself audio

and that should be it...

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