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From: Jim <jim@codeworks.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Multiple VAGs...
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 10:11:02 +0000
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Elliott Lee wrote:
> 
> 
> + Mysterious Error:
>   I've been working with a VAB having 5 VAGs in it, however adding
>   the 6th produces an error message something like "cannot find vag
>   (6)".  Has anyone run into this?  I checked my DEF file and its
>   okay.  I made sure each waveform was evenly divisible by 28
>   (though none loop).  Each waveform converted to VAG just fine.

I had this same problem yesterday, also on the 6th vag.
Be sure the filename of the 6th vag is not longer than 8.3 and you're
not overflowing the command line length.

> 
> + Managing Many VAGs in a VAB:
>   Does anyone know how many VAGs can be specified as command-line
>   inputs to mkvab?  I want to be including dozens of sounds but
>   am wondering if the environment will stop me from doing that.
>   Can we use a list file of some sort to name each VAG in order?
>   (I figure using *.VAG as the input parameter may produce
>   unexpected results?)

I believe the official work around was to make the filename of each .vag
smaller.


Cheers

Jim