marco atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes: | | On 12/3/2011 4:26 PM, Andrew Hancock wrote: || marco atzeri<marco.atzeri<at> gmail.com> writes: ||| On 12/3/2011 5:26 AM, Andrew Hancock wrote: |||| According to |||| http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 , a |||| bug with octave's wavread function was fixed in octave 3.2.3. My |||| "cygcheck -cvs" shows an octave of 3.4.2, but I still get the |||| bug. || || ...I posted on another thread asking whether it was wise to update || Octave without updating the cygwin DLL. Updating the cygwin DLL || using Setup is actually downgrading, since I currently use a || snapshot of the cygwin DLL to get around a problem with creating || files/folders on a network drive (unrelated to Octave). | | Andrew, cygwin setup is not aware of any snapshot you can install | manually, as it compares the info from setup.ini (from website) with | the info stored on its database /etc/setup/installed.db | | So if you have | | $ cygcheck -c cygwin | Cygwin Package Information | Package Version Status | cygwin 1.7.9-1 OK | | as 1.7.9-1 is the last released version, running setup again to | upgrade octave, will not replace your snapshot.
Thanks for explaining, Marco. As I replied to Christopher, I think I was confused. | I am also running a snapshot as 1.7.9 | | $ uname -rv | 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111129 17:41:48 | | for the reason reported on | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2011-10/msg00001.html It'll be nice when the new cygwin release comes out and octave works with gnuplot. I didn't realize that it was fixed in snapshots after June. I know what to try if the need arises. | It seems a different problem of the bug you thought about, ... Yes, my mistake again. My error message is that there is no RIFF chunk, while http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=30309 is for no *data* chunk. | ...both the 3.4.2-3 and the latest development build do not | recognize the file format. <...snip...> | Please note that | | $ file *.wav | 428shortMono.wav: RIFF (big-endian) data, WAVE audio, mono 44100 Hz | oddchunk.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, | 16 bit, mono 1000 Hz | | I am not sure that your file is compatible with octave expectation, | I suggest to rise the question on octave-help as I know nothing about | sound file format. Will do. Thanks for checking for me. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
