On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 09:19:18PM +0000, john wrote:
> The bug report is in the issues.  It was opening files as raw when incorrect
> and thus generating nasty sounds.  The revised version ignores the format if
> positive (for backward compatability but with any header it is unnecssary)
> and if negative it uses the format negated with a raw format.  There were
> extensive discussions at the time; not sure if they were public or not.
> This seemed (and still seens) the best solution.
> 
> Note there was a coding error in gen01 that gave an incorrect error if the
> format was negative; I think that is now corrected.
> 
Thanks for the explanation,  But couldn't you check for the header
*first*, and only use the (positive) format value if that is missing?
If people were getting nasties by using a format with, say,
a WAV file, wouldn't they have had to correct things at the time?

	-- Pete --

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