On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:19:26AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > CONCLUSIONS > > > > Audio messages can be interpreted. Eg., > > set AUDIODEV=plughw:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0; play m94.WAV > > Hasty reply. In further use, didn't always work. I removed the PCI > sound card, removed the plastic cover from the sockets on the system > board and connected speakers. Subsequently commands such as this > always work. > > set AUDIODEV=plughw:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0 ; play a42.WAV
Are you in csh/tcsh? If you're in a more "normal" shell (bash or zsh), that set command doesn't do anything useful. Certainly nothing that would affect the play command. Even if you're in (t)csh, my understanding is that "set" sets shell variables, and you need "setenv" to set environment variables (which could conceivably affect the play command). So, even in (t)csh, I don't see how your set command is supposed to work. Other shells... rc? fish? I don't know these. I have no idea what the set command does in them.
