Pass through key

Charles Hallenbeck chuckh at mhonline.net
Tue Jan 16 06:38:13 EST 2001


Steve _

That is an interesting question. The cdcd software installs ewasily
enough; give it a try and tell us what happens.
Chuck

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I don't presently have a sound card in that 486 I'm running linux on but
> the CD ROM drive does have an ear jack on it.  I wonder if I could use the
> program in that primative state to take advantage of the CD database.
> 
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > Jacob -
> > 
> > I installed cdcd without any problems, and am in love with it! You and
> > Buddy were absolutely right. What a pleasure this little program is. I
> > especially like the cd database feature and have retrieved available info
> > on my collection of CD's to start with. Thanks for the pointer.
> > Chuck
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > 
> > > HI
> > >      Currently, there's no such thing. And there's better CD players than
> > > WorkBone. One, cdcd, is command-line and interactive. The interactive
> > > thing is like a ftp-style prompt, where you'd enter commands like "play"
> > > and 'stop". And it supports CDDB, which workbone doesn't. However,
> > > workbone can be operated by the numbers on the regular keyboard as well.
> > > Though it's kind of hard to understand how the keys are layed out, because
> > > the help screens have the stuff layed out in the numeric keypad with
> > > arrows on screen rather than text. For example, stop is labeled with ==
> > > rather than the word. This made it really hard for me to learn it.
> > > If you want it, cdcd is available at:
> > > http://cdcd.undergrid.net
> > > or I could send a slackware package if you want it.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I don't know if this is already covered or not, but is there a "pass
> > > > through" key for speakup? I'm thinking of programs like workbone to play
> > > > CD's which uses the numeric keypad to operate it.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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