Dear Richard,

* Richard Dobson <richarddobson@blueyonder.co.uk> [2014-03-05 00:18]:
> On 04/03/2014 23:02, Peter P. wrote:
> ..
> >Thank you. I think it is activated:
> >
> >user@machine:~/CDPrelease7src/dev/Release$ set | grep CDP_SOUND_EXT
> >CDP_SOUND_EXT=wav
> >
> >So bash reports this variable being set. Or did I misspell it? Or do I
> >make another mistake? Thank you for your effort Richard,
> >
> 
> Ok; if there is not already a file called somefile.ana (CDP programs
> are non-destructive), and there is not some unexpected permissions
> problem, then I am stumped. I have it working here on Suse 13.1, and
> have not witnessed this problem in any other circumstance than the
> missing environment variable. The only workaround I can suggest is
> to give the output file a .wav extension (since the .ana format
> actually uses the WAVE file format with a custom header chunk) and
> see if that solves the problem (if it runs, you can change the
> extension to .ana afterwards).
Yes indeed! "./pvoc anal" and also other programs working with .ana files
crash when they are launced with somefile.ana outfile names.

The workaround you propose works. The file is written, and can be
renamed from somefile.wav to somefile.ana
I could even sstick to the .wav extension and have other programs use
these files as valid input to transformations in the spectral domain.

I am wondering if anyone else has or has no such problem on Linux.

Thanks again Richard for your kind support.

best, Peter