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authorUwe Stuehler <uwe@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-03-21 00:33:40 +0000
committerUwe Stuehler <uwe@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-03-21 00:33:40 +0000
commit274467e4b85cf71e181f26656d675e2d9d5044d8 (patch)
treed0060ec86e884be6193f47d808b983ad58ca1606 /usr.bin/aucat
parentf73f0808096db939d81a56857f5e2576116d3446 (diff)
describe .wav support in one sentence
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/aucat')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/aucat/aucat.110
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1 b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
index 48763bffb25..83f95584d33 100644
--- a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.12 2004/07/30 11:43:02 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.13 2007/03/21 00:33:39 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Kenneth Stailey. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ operands are processed in command line order.
If a Sun .au header is
detected it is skipped over and not copied to
.Pa /dev/audio .
-Otherwise, the
-entire file is copied to
+If a Microsoft .wav header (RIFF) is detected it is interpreted to
+select the right audio encoding for playback and the data chunk of the
+file is copied to
+.Pa /dev/audio ,
+given that the audio driver directly supports the encoding.
+Otherwise, the entire file is copied to
.Pa /dev/audio .
.Pp
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