Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: .def file editing Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:57:44 -0800 Organization: Cisco Systems Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3505C568.D00873C1@netmagic.net> References: <35039C00.926F4898@netmagic.net> <3503C036.B79872B8@codeworks.demon.co.uk> <35047926.9140F9B2@netmagic.net> <3504ab1d.5896770@news.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: tenchi@cisco.com NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-e-39-245.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Robert Swan wrote: > > I thought I was doing well, seeing as I got my sound to work fairly > early on, but to be limited by the number of characters we can fit on > one command line? nice one. > > From my sketchy understanding of sound, heres a (long winded) > question- > > I've sort of figured out the .def file except I'm worried about the > importance of a few things. It says the file sizes are calulated by > the tools to create a .vh and .vb file, and yet owing to my lack of Yup. > faith in the manuals I wouldn't be surprised if it was confused after > trying to work out how mkvab operated (you use mkvab with a .def and > vags to create a .vab, but to get a .def you use mkvab on a .vab. > Hang on, chicken + egg scenario) and that the files sizes specified at > the start and end are vital. I did some calculation on the .def file > from std0 and found that the total of all the seperate files sizes > didn't match that specified at the start. If this isn't important, > then don't worry, but if it is, why the discrepency? I have no idea why the above is happening other than the file sizes in the VAB may have header info stripped/added to it...? All of my file sizes in the output .def file matches the actual file sizes of my VAGs. You use mkvab in conjunction with your VAGs and .def file to make the VAB. It calculates the sizes and all that. Optional: you can use mkvab to extract the .def file info from a VAB---always a good sanity check. - e! tenchi@netmagic.net http://www.netmagic.net/~tenchi/yaroze/