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From: richard@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Description of SPARC soundfile format?
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> They are clearly non-ascii files (as an examination of the sample file
> 'sample.au' reveals), but are the values long floats, or what?

No, they're just bytes.  They're represented slightly strangely: a byte
with value n in the file means 384-n if n > 128, otherwise it means n.

-- Richard