From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jun 4 19:59:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA01244 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01234 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA10144; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706050259.TAA10144@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Denis DeLaRoca cc: Mark Tinguely , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rat and Freebsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:11:00 PDT." <199706050211.TAA27594@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:59:47 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tnks Denis .. Anyone out there with a gus pnp and rat off my ftp site wants to chat? Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Denis DeLaRoca : > On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:05:00 -0500 CDT, > Mark Tinguely said: > > > > in the January 1997 Usenix conferencing proceedings (for shame, I am just > > recently read them), {I.Kouvelus,V.Handman}@cs.ucl.ac.uk say in their paper > > on RAT, they mention that FreeBSD is one of the few OSes that can run RAT. > > I tried to poke around their ftp servers, but did see any copies of the > > executables. Has anyone heard anything new on RAT for FreeBSD? > > I checked the UCL ftp server and there is a rat release for FreeBSD. > I downloaded it to Amancio's FTP site rah.star-gate.com since the > transatlantic links are often very slow. > > On my FreeBSD 2.2.2, this version 3.0.22 of rat is unable to open > the audio device. Right now I am running FreeBSD's audio driver... > I seem to remember that rat for FreeBSD was developed using the > OSS audio driver. Can anyone check that such is the case. This > rat release appears to be only in binary -- too bad, since it would > be nice to make it work with Amancio's gus driver. > > -- Denis >