Чем прослушать это ?

$ play english.au (-:

Помнится, я это слышал, когда настраивал звук в RH 6.2

Raw u-law files can be played using "cat file >/dev/audio".

A whole package for dealing with ".au" files is provided by Sun on an experimental basis, in /usr/demo/SOUND. You may have to compile the programs first. (If you can't find this directory, either you are not running SunOS 4.1 yet, or your system administrator hasn't installed it -- go ask him for it, not me!) The program "play" in this directory recognizes all files in Sun/NeXT format. A strange thing Sun did is that most older Sparc hardware only play audio files using u-law encoding at 8 k -- newer hardware plays can play linear PCM data up to 44k but can't play u-law files.

If you can't find "play", you can also cat a ".au" file to /dev/audio, if it uses u-law; the header will sound like a short burst of noise but the rest of the data will sound OK (really, the only difference in this case between raw u-law and ".au" files is the header; the u-law data is exactly the same).

OpenWindows 3.0 has a full-fledged audio tool (called "audiotool"). You can drop audio file icons into it, edit them, etc.

Finally, current versions of SoX include the ability to convert and play sounds directly to the Sun /dev/audio device. It should include a script called "play" to do this.

>$play english.au
play я не нашел, но нашел playsound из пакета libsdl-sound и он проиграл :) Странно что xmms и mplayer не смогли :(

>Помнится, я это слышал, когда настраивал звук в RH 6.2
А я слышал это в RH 7.2 вроде setsound эта тулза называлась.

>Raw u-law files can be played using "cat file >/dev/audio".
Угу вот только разница между cat и playsound как я убедился огромная.
От cat жуткие помехи.

emerge sox