On Tue, 7 May 1996 23:55:35 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl> wrote:

 > Note that some releases of "vat" for SunOS try to be clever and detect
 > what system they're running on (SunOS vs. BSD) by trying to manipulate
 > `/dev/audioctl'. Since the process, when run under NetBSD, is still in
 > SunOS emulation mode, this defeats the sunos_compat ioctl conversion
 > code.
 > 
 > Since I understand there's now a source release of vat, this point should
 > now be moot pretty soon.

Unfortunately, I've had bad luck getting a native NetBSD/sparc vat to 
work.  Charles once mentioned that this might be a problem in the NetBSD 
audio layer, and if that's the case, I'd like to try and get it fixed.

Charles: could you provide some details of what the problem might be?

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