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Hmm... I thought that Sun .au files were 8-bit u-law compressed.
Using WHAM works fine for me on my GUS... as far as the speaker thing
goes... check the Drivers setup... I don't think it can hack long
samples.  I seem to recall something about how many seconds to buffer...

-- Mike
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Subject: Re: I'm ready to spend money - free and shareware WINSOCK not ok

In article <2kgknq$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Karl Denninger) writes:

   In article <2kgkhp$[e-mail]>, Karl Denninger <[e-mail]> wrote:

   One further note:

   The Chameleon stuff I have here from the book does not, as far as I can
   determine, do dial-on-demand.  This is not a big deal for me, but it is
   something to consider.  It may be that it really <does> and I don't have it
   set up to do that (difficult to do that setup without the book, which
   hasn't arrived yet :-)

   Then again, TRUMPET WINSOCK internal SLIP claimed to support it but it
   didn't work right (launch a client and it dials, but the client immediately
   bitches about being unable to resolve a hostname and you have to start over
   anyway).

What did you do, forget to fill in the domain and name server slots in the
Setup option?  Tsk tsk...  the internal SLIP works fine for me, although the
longest I've tried using it for continuously was eight hours.  Autodialer
set up, name servers, the works.

Not having Dial-on-demand sucks, IMHO.

Maybe I'll hang on to my $25 for a while.
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Subject: Re: mosaic .au files.

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Sargon) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Sargon)
>Subject: Re: mosaic .au files.
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 15:21:56 GMT

>In article <2khitj$[e-mail]> [e-mail]
>(Jason E Levine) writes:
>>From: [e-mail] (Jason E Levine)
>>Subject: Re: mosaic .au files.
>>Date: 24 Feb 1994 06:53:39 GMT

>>In article <2khi7h$[e-mail]>,
>>Oleg Zabluda <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>I am trying to istall Mosaic. Everything works fine but audio files.
>>>I am trying to use wplany as an external viewer with my speaker. When I click
>>>on the "audio" button mosaic translates file, starts wplany and then wplany
>>>gives me massage : " A device ID has been used is out of range for your
>system"
>>>I don't have a soundcard but I think wplany works with speaker.

>>I bet it's that .AU files are 16-bit sound files, and the PC speaker driver
>>(if you have it installed at all, which you may not) only supports 8-bit
>>sound.  I have a program called WHAM (Waveform Hold and Modify, if I am not
>>mistaken) that I picked up off of one of the standard PC FTP sites... it
>>will convert them to 8-bit sounds and play them.  (Not automatically,
>>though; I double-click on the audio link in Mosaic, WHAM loads up with the
>>.AU file loaded in, and then I have to select "Convert to 8-bit".)

>>Hope that this helps.

>>Jason

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>i believe hes right. i have wham and a speaker and to get mosaic files to play
>i need to use the 8-bit converter. it also for some reason only plays about
>the first few seconds of the au files. dose anyone know why?
>-Adam
>[e-mail]


I have WinMosaic 2.0alpha on my PC and I use WPLANY for .au files. The
following lines are the appropriate entries in my MOSAIC.INI file.

[Viewers]
type8="audio/basic"
audio/basic="p:\mosaic\wplany.exe %ls"

[Suffixes]
audio/basic=.au,.AU,.aud,.AUD

Mosaic and Wplany are loaded from a LAN Manager server (the p: drive). It
works fine. I like it better than WHAM, which I was using, because it loads
and plays without any additional commands, clicks or other user intervention.
WHAM, on the other hand lets you modify the file (hence its name). No flame to
WHAM, its author(s) or users is intended.

The time limit on the playback may simply be in the Windows Control panel
driver setup for the speaker driver. It has the option of setting a time limit
of 1-10 seconds or unlimited. It also has a volume control.


Paul Noble
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio
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