[PD] writesf~ bug?

[Miller Puckette]

Hmm... well, the NeXTs took ".au" files either way (and specified them that
way) -- but this might just be an obsolete NeXTStep-ism.  I don't know
how they're handled on Macintoshes these days.

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:14:28AM -0000, Jorge Cardoso wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miller Puckette [mailto:mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu] 
> > Sent: sábado, 17 de Janeiro de 2004 23:30
> > To: Jorge Cardoso
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] writesf~ bug?
> > 
> > 
> > THanks... no, nobody I know uses next/sun format, but I'll go and put
> > in your fixes, thanks.
> > 
> > Rather than forcing .au to little-endian, I found and fixed 
> > the bug that
> > made the "-little" flag not work.
> 
> Actually, I think that these flags should not exist. 
> 
> I believe that the .au files have to be in big-endian format 
> (the file has to be encoded the same way whether you're working 
> in big-endian machine or in a little-endian one,
> otherwise the file format would not be portable...
> 
> In any case, the flag fix will already enable to write the file properly, by
> using the -big flag so..., thanks :)
> 
> Bye,
> jc
> 
> ---
> Jorge Cardoso <-> jorgecardoso at ieee.org
> 
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