SPARCstations - Audio file

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 05:19:08 -0600, Ed <nomail.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I've heard a few of you guys mention SPARC so maybe you can help? I'm
>looking at some old 1990 C code which uses audio files that end with the
>extension ".ulaw". I'm not sure if these are renamed or special to SPARC
>or what but renaming them to .wav didn't work. ;p Is there any way I
>could convert these to WAV files or anything that runs on Windows? I
>just need to hear a sample of one, even if it's played back at
>in-correct speed would be fine.

It's one of the audio formats which Quicktime claims to support as Mime
type: uLaw/AU - dunno what extension it expects... .au??. I've never
dabbled with it and I must admit that Quicktime seems to claim to support
file types which don't actually work sometimes.

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Rgds, George Macdonald