showaudio(1)

✨ showaudio(1) ✨ — the play-an-audio-email-msg manual, bestie edition 🎧💖

okay so this is the manual page for showaudio, a General Commands Manual situation, and we're gonna get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

showaudio — literally just plays an audio email message for you 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

showaudio file-name(s)

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it file-name(s) and it does the thing ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so picture this: showaudio lets a user on a properly-equipped workstation actually listen to an audio message 👑 no cap. it's built to be called from mailcap files — typically by the metamail(1) program — so it's like the backstage bestie doing the real work, iykyk 🫶

at most sites, it works by playing audio on the speaker of the user's computer 🎧 simple, iconic, done.

BUT — and this is the fun part — when you use it in conjunction with special hardware and software not part of the metamail distribution, it can also deliver the audio information by telephone number ☎️✨ yes fr fr. there are various options to showaudio that support this feature, but they are not documented here, because the functionality is not generally available 🙈 so like... they exist, but they're giving secret menu energy. don't come for me, I'm just the messenger 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• audiocompose(1)
• audiosend(1)
• metamail(1)

go read those too, bestie, they're the whole ecosystem 🌸

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💀 BUGS 💀

currently plays audio only on Sun & Sony workstations 😭 like... that's the whole list. if you're not on one of those, vibe check failed, sorry babes.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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.

okay so real talk: that ALL-CAPS part is not me being dramatic, that's the actual legal text and it means no warranties, at all, periodt 🫡 keep the notice, keep the permission notice, don't use the Bellcore name in ads. slay but legally 💅

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore ⭐

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and that's the page!! 🎀 source + version: this is Release 1 of the showaudio(1) manual page, and yeah that's the whole thing — go play some audio messages, bestie, you got this 💜🦋