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From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> Default format (U8 or S16_LE) depends on minor number which is assigned to
> /dev/dsp (minor % 16 = 3 -> 8-bit unsigned, minor % 16 = 5 -> 16-bit
> signed little endian).

OSS has another filename for 16bit wide default format, /dev/dspw IIRC.
/dev/dsp should default to 8bit. 

  Gerd


