On Sat, Feb 07, 2026 at 10:24:44AM -0800, cygwin wrote: > Microsoft is forcing me to abandon Windows because my perfectly > functional laptop isn't W11-compatible. As a result, I have literally > decades worth of scripts written for Cygwin that I need to edit to be > made compatible with Linux. I'd prefer not to lose Cygwin > compatibility, if possible, as I may be forced by some unknown evil > entity to move back to Windows some day. > > The most common issue I'm going to face is what to do about /dev/dsp. > I like things to make noise so that I know what's going on without > looking so many of my scripts use /dev/dsp. > > I'm also going to have to deal with the various cyg... utilities that > I use, but that is likely a much harder issue to deal with and, > fortunately, less common in my scripts. > > So... recommendations, please? > > Thanks... and thanks for the many, many years of not having to write > scripts in Windows BAT format! > Does https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-do-i-get-dev-dsp-594171/ work for you?
Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
