Jim Smitherman wrote:
> 
> I've solved a couple of problems, at least i get 100 megs of nothing now,
> whereas before, it wouldn't even do anything (the filenames are wrong, you
> have to take off the .aif extension, etc etc)
> 
> however, even though along with other tweaks I've made progress in this, I
> still get exactly nothing.   The problem seems to be:  I'll copy in part:
> 
> ftable 6:
> deferred alloc
> unknown chunk Ã*Å*Ã*Ã* of size -24642111
> unknown chunk Ã*zÃ*Â3 of size -25821771
> unknown chunk Ã*â*¡Ã*· of size -23331383
> unknown chunk Ã*Ã*Ã*ë of size -18612723
> unknown chunk ÿÃ*? of size -12714383
> unknown chunk ÿbÃ*£ of size -8192299
> 
> these unknown chunk things.  I have no idea what to do about that.   hmm, my

Chunks are what AIFF files are made of. Those negative sizes make me think
that chunksizes in the file reading functions of csound may not be coded on
enough bits, so that large sizes are interpreted as negative numbers (highest
order bit set), and I suppose 100 Meg can be considered as relatively big ?

Just a guess...

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