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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CD-Audio players for textmode?
Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:28:14 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:

> : I've been looking for, but not finding, a text-mode program to play audio
> : CD's under FreeBSD.

> Yes, it's called cdplay and it comes with the base OS (it does in 2.0.5
> and up, at least -- you didn't say what version of FreeBSD you have).

It's been moved to "cdcontrol" now (with a slightly changed user
interface), in order to express that you can do more with it than just
playing CDs, e.g. you can also eject the medium.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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