AUPHONE(1)

💖 AUPHONE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the auphone page, from the General Commands Manual ✨ it's literally the cutest little telephone client and i'm obsessed.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

auphone — a simple telephone client 🎀

like. it's a phone. on your computer. it's giving retro main character energy and i'm here for it 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

auphone [-a servername] [-v volume] [-l latency] [-r filename]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. four options, no drama 🦋

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so auphone lets two audio servers have a two-way, real time voice conversation with each other 🌈 like a phone call but for servers. two-way. real time. voice. communication. no cap 🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

here are the options you can use with auphone, and yes i'm listing every single one because we don't skip:

• -a servername — this one tells auphone which audio server it should connect to 💖
• -v volume — the volume, in percent, for the incoming ring sound. the default is 15 percent. (yes, fifteen. it's a polite little ring, not a jump scare 😭)
• -l latency — the latency, in seconds, of the auphone connection ⏱️ and okay here's the tea:
  • a lower value = better real-time communications 🏃♀️ but it might overload the server (which causes dropouts) and it means a greater network duty cycle.
  • a higher value = less load on the server and a smaller network duty cycle 😌 but it increases the communications delay.

the default value is .25 seconds. balance, bestie, balance 🧘♀️

• -r filename — personalize your incoming ringing sound!! 🎵 just specify the filename of an audio file to use for the incoming ring sound. note that this sound will be looped 🔁 so choose wisely, it's gonna go round and round and round.

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

to place a call: type the address of the audio server you wanna connect with into the Who text field. then hit RETURN or click the Call button 💌

if the callee is accepting calls, you should hear a ringing sound 🔔 and if the callee answers, the username and server address of the callee will be displayed, so you know exactly who you're talking to 👑

to disconnect, click the Hangup button. bye bestie 👋

to receive incoming calls: you must already be running auphone. like, it has to be on, okay? 🙈

to answer an incoming call, click the Answer button. and ooh, plot twist — you can find out who's calling before you answer by clicking the Caller ID button 👀 mystery solved.

once you're connected:

• the Volume slider controls the volume of the speaker output 🔊
• the Input Gain slider and the Input Mode toggle control the gain and mode of the microphone or line input 🎤

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🌈 AUPHONE AND THE ATHENA WIDGET SET 🌈

auphone uses the X Toolkit Intrinsics and the Athena Widget Set ✨ for more info, see the Athena Widget Set documentation 📚

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

in addition to the standard toolkit environment variables, auphone uses these:

• AUDIOSERVER — this variable specifies the default audio server to contact if -a is not specified on the command line. and if this variable is not set and -a isn't given on the command line either, auphone will attempt to connect to the audio server running on the X Window System display 💖

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• nas(1)
• X(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 1993 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🍓

okay so this was version 1.9.4 of the AUPHONE(1) manual page from the General Commands Manual — go forth and make some calls, you've got this 💅✨🫶