Thanks to the many who responded so quickly! The original post was:
> I have a need for an audio "reminder" to put in a tape for a backup
> once monthly. Could anyone enlighten me how I can play an audio
> file (created by OpenWindows audiotool) from a shell script executed
> by cron?
Answers came immediately from:
Dave Hightower <hightowr@afwc.af.mil>
Larry Chin <Larry_Chin@cchtor.ca.cch.com>
"Timothy Heberling" <heberlit@cc.ims.disa.mil>
mhalvers@admin.co.martin.fl.us (Mark Halverson x1312)
mike@birch.lib.utexas.edu (Michael Kline)
Wallie Leung <leungw@fw.gs.com>
Jeff Kaiserman <Jeffrey.Kaiserman@fw.gs.com>
Marco Pineda <mcp4@columbia.edu>
"Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Pedro Roque Marques <roque@di.fc.ul.pt
Special thanks to Dave Hightower who sent me the program "play."
There are two answers to my question:
1. Cat the file to /dev/audio (e.g. cat audiofile > /dev/audio)
2. Use the program "play" that is included in the Sun demo directory.
Both options work beautifully. Again, thanks to all who replied.
Robin
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