SOUND stuff!

Submitter:	Kent C. Brodie
		Sr. systems & Network Manager
		Medical College of Wisconsin
		(414) 266-5080
		brodie@fps.mcw.edu


The following sound files were collected from various internet ftp sites  
(such as procyon.cis.ksu.edu), as well as being collected over time from
news postings to alt.binaries.sounds.misc.

The sound files were initially created for a SUN Sparcstation.   The extension
".au" is common for that format.   (see documentation in the "SOX"
directory).   This directory is broken up into subdirectories that
more or less "categorize" the sounds.  (there's lots of STAR TREK
sounds, especially)

Effective with MOTIF V1.1, You can use the DECSOUND application to
play these sounds, as they're compatable with the sound chip
in VAXstation 4000's.

To play the sound files, you can either use the motif DECSOUND
application from windows, or play the sounds from DCL.  This
is done by defining a symbol:

$ play :== $sys$system:decsound.exe -PLAY

...Then type

$ play some_sound_file_name.au

If you do not have an external speaker handy, a telephone receiver will
plug into the audio port quite nicely!

These sound files are great for amusement purposes, but can also be
used for things like VAXCLUSTER CONSOLE to make your workstation
scream out alarms when certain events happen in your cluster (!)

(for that purpose, just define a VCS ENS action to play the sound
file....   see the [.vcs] subdirectory for an example)

Additionally, there's a subdirectory called [.SOX] which contains
a pretty nifty sound-file conversion utility (sox).  I have not
gotten this to compile under VMS yet, but it does seem that SOME
vms-porting works has been done.   If you're interested, it's
worth a shot.  (I hope to have a full VMS-ready copy the next time)


	--Kent C. Brodie,  brodie@fps.mcw.edu