Re: How to play sound from string correctly?

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
   Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:36:26 -0700 (MST)

   > It is the correct way to read it and delete it.
   > (I am surprised you want to delete it.)
   > You might want to kill the buffer afterward;
   > you might want to use with-temp-buffer.

Of course, this was only quick workaround of bug in sound.c which I fixed,
but I would like to know Gerd opinion before installing it. It may be also
relevant to RC branch.

   > Try comparing the temporary file using cmp with the original file.
   > If they are different, then encoding has changed the contents.
   > But I expect you'll find that no multibyte encoding or decoding occurs
   > and the contents are unchanged.
   > 
   > I would suspect there is a bug in play-sound in the handling of :data.

Yes, it was.
-- 
Pavel Janík

Well, after spending a lot of time hacking on Emacs you develop
a particular intimacy with point.  A sort of friendship which
doesn't allow for "the" to appear in front of "point" any more.
                  -- Stefan Monnier in comp.emacs