Aaxp(1)

NAME
Aaxp, Amaxine, Asparc - a network-transparent audio server for Alpha AXP workstations, Personal DECstations, and SparcStations.

SYNOPSIS

The AF audio server is a network transparent system developed at Digital CRL. The audio servers described in this manual page support the native 8KHz CODECs on some DEC workstations and the SparcStation.

DESCRIPTION

Aaxp is an AF server with native CODEC audio device dependent support for DEC3000 workstations.

Amaxine is an AF server with native CODEC audio device dependent support for DECstation 5000 model 25 workstations.

Asparc is an AF server with native CODEC audio device dependent support for SparcStations.

STARTING UP

Aaxp [:portOffset] [options] &

Amaxine [:portOffset] [options] &

Asparc [:portOffset] [options] &

OPTIONS

-help

    Use the help switch to determine device independent arguments.

AUDIO DEVICES

These audio servers present a single 8KHz input/output audio device to client applications. The audio device number is 0.

CONNECTION NAME

From the user's prospective, every AF server has an audio connection of the form:

hostname:portOffset

This information is used by the application to determine how it should connect to the server.

hostname
    The hostname specifies the name of the machine to which the audio device is physically connected.

portOffset
    The portOffset is used to identify the audio server's port on hostname. For example, to simultaneously run two audio servers on a given host, you might select 0 or 1 for portOffset.

If the connection name to an audio server is not specified, then the environment variables AUDIOFILE or DISPLAY will be used.

ACCESS CONTROL
The sample server provides two types of access control: an authorization protocol which provides a list of ``magic cookies'' clients can send to request access, and a list of hosts from which connections are always accepted.

BUGS
If you encounter a repeatable bug, please submit a problem report to () and include the source code if possible.

SEE ALSO

AF(1), Aaxp(1), Amaxine(1), Alofi(1), Ajv(1), Amsb(1), Aj300(1), aplay(1), arecord(1), apass(1), aset(1), abrowse(1), afft(1), ahost(1), aphone(1), aprop(1), ahs(1), axset(1), xpow(1), afxctl(1), aname2num(1), alsatoms(1), aevents(1), abob(1)

COPYRIGHT

See the COPYRIGHTS file.

Copyright 1991-1994, Digital Equipment Corporation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

AUTHORS
Digital Cambridge Research Lab