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From: pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron)
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Subject: Re: Sounds (snd's?) for the NeXT
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Date: 12 Jan 91 21:21:22 GMT
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In article <AZZ^SW-@rpi.edu> Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes:
>One of the systems programmers here at RPI is trying out a NeXT, and was
>interested in getting some alternate sounds for it.  Is there any way to
>convert any Mac sounds (which I have...) so they'd play on the NeXT?  If not,
>is there some ftp site (or maybe CI$) where we could pick NeXT-style sounds up.
>
>(looking for alert-type sounds of a few seconds long, not recordings of Mozart
>or anything)
>
>Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Yes, there is.  At the NeXT archives at sonata.cc.purdue.edu and
probably cs.orst.edu.  Its called mac2snd (sorry, don't remember
which directory its in).

I've used it to convert many Mac sounds and it works just fine.


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