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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:58:46 -0600
From: Franklin Belew <frb@umr.edu>
To: alsa-devel@alsa.jcu.cz
Subject: Re: alsa midi player
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990122103556.29747C-100000@entry.jcu.cz>; from Jaroslav Kysela on Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:39:02AM +0100
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On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:39:02AM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Frank van de Pol wrote:
> 
> > btw: for easy porting of _all_ applications using /dev/sequencer one could
> > write a library that implements/wraps the OSS sequencer macros. (eg.
> > implement code that performs the SEQ_START_NOTE(), SEQ_STOP_NOTE() etc.)
> 
> It seems for me as very good idea...
> 
> 							Jaroslav
> 
Well, the only problem I see with this is that all the macros are ioctl()s, so it can only be source compatible, unless someone manages to add this functionality to the fd returned.

Frank Belew

