[Xastir] Xastir Sound on Win XP Pro

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, James Cour wrote:

> This one was a struggle for me too.  Here is what I did:
>
> 1.  In Xastir Configure, I just have the word "auplay" with no options.
>
> 2.  I start Xastir from a batch file that reads as follows:
>
> ***********************************
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET MAGICK_HOME=/usr
> SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
> SET PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
>
> if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH
> attrib -s %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> del %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> :CLEANUP-FINISH
> if exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix
>
> start XWin -multiwindow
> run nasd -b
> run /usr/local/bin/xastir xastir
>
> ***********************************
>
> So, load NASD from the Windows O/S, not from the BASH shell.  The batch file
> above does not even display the BASH window since you should not need it
> except when doing updates and recompiling (I have a different batch file for
> that).  I found I had problems if I used the "NASD -b -local" snytax so I
> removed that.  Since I did that, Xastir sounds have been working fine.
>
> Oh, you do know that you have to have the NASD sound drivers installed,
> right?  Get the NAS-1.6-win-binary.zip file here:
>
> http://nas.intra-links.net/download.php
>
> Unzip it to a new directory then delete README.TXT and CYGWIN1.DLL.  Copy
> the rest of the files to C:\Cygwin\bin (or wherever you bin directory is).
> Then you should be good to go.  I am running XP Home, but I don't think that
> should matter.

What portion of this do we have permission to use/should we use in
the README's.  I'm depending on you Cygwin users to help keep the
docs straight!

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