audiocompose(1)

🎙️ audiocompose(1) — audio-note bestie energy 💖

okay so this is the audiocompose(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally giving "record a little audio fragment and send it in mail" vibes 🎧✨.

🌸 NAME

audiocompose — Compose an audio fragment for inclusion in a mail message. Periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

audiocompose file-name

🎀 DESCRIPTION

audiocompose is the program that lets a user on a properly-equipped workstation enter an audio fragment, and that fragment gets written to the named file. So you pass file-name, you record, and it lands there — main character recording session energy 🎤💖.

After recording, the user will be given the chance to listen to their clip, and to re-record it if they so desire. Not me loving the "wait, let me redo that" option 😭 — the re-record option ate, honestly 💅.

This program is intended primarily to be called from mailcap files by programs like mailto(1). So it's lowkey built to be a helper behind the scenes, iykyk 🦋.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT

• RECORD_AUDIO — can be set to the name of a program that records audio, sending the digital audio to standard output. So that env var is the "which recorder should I use?" bestie 🎛️✨.

👑 SEE ALSO

• audiosend(1)
• mailto(1)
• metamail(1)
• showaudio(1)

💀 BUGS

Currently only works on Sun & Sony workstations equipped with microphones. So yeah, ngl, that's the compatibility vibe check, and it's very much a period-accurate limitation 🫠🎙️.

🫶 COPYRIGHT

okay legal bestie moment — here's the exact copyright and permission notice, no edits, because we keep every detail fr fr:

Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this material for any
purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies, and
that the name of Bellcore not be used in advertising or publicity
pertaining to this material without the specific, prior written
permission of an authorized representative of Bellcore.  BELLCORE MAKES
NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THIS MATERIAL
FOR ANY PURPOSE.  IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES.

that's the whole permission-slip situation, and yes it's iconic legal text 💜.

🧚 AUTHOR

Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore. Slay, author bestie ✨.

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That's the whole audiocompose(1) page, bestie 💖 — footer source/version vibe: Release 1, page tag audiocompose(1), and there's no date printed on this footer, so no invented date, periodt 💅.