Hello, I'm new to csound -- about a week now :)

I've installed csound-3.482 on a dec alpha running linux and
I'm having trouble reading and writting formatted files.  For example:

%csound -W -o intro.wav intro.orc intro.sco
%csound -U sndinfo test.wav
util SNDINFO:
test.wav:
        no recognizable soundfile header
%sox test.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
sox: WAVE header not found

If I have an instrument that uses soundin on a file with a valid
header, it cant read it either.

on the other hand,

%csound -o devaudio intro.orc intro.sco

works fine...

Am I doing something silly or is this a bug?

> Hello, I'm new to csound -- about a week now :)
> 
> I've installed csound-3.482 on a dec alpha running linux and
> I'm having trouble reading and writting formatted files.

I can read and write WAV files just fine on my Alpha.  It sounds like your
binary was compiled without all the patches required for that platform.

It appears that the canonical source is missing a script that I used
to patch up Csound's (mis-)usage of C "long", even though it incorporates
my other patches.  Building on a Alpha will succeed, and the result will
have most opcodes functional--but file formats (other than raw) will be
screwed up.

I can send you the missing script, or even a binary for Alpha if necessary.
I'll re-send the script to John Fitch as well, along with a brief README
on its use.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@ayched.com