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Matt Price wrote:

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> Hi folks,

>

> I just discovered two very ancient audio files on my computer.  I am

> pretty sure they contain some interesting archival material in which I

> am very interested ... but I can't get them to play.  The problem is

> that I don't know what format they're in -- I created them a number of

> years ago on a mac, and I no longer remember how -- maybe using

> protools?  or maybe someone else made them for me in some other

> format?  Anyway, when I copied them over to linux (eons ago!) I must

> have lost the resouce forks, and there are no standard .xxx file codes

> on the file names.  I tried just loading the files in xmms and

> audacity, but neither recognizes them (well, audacity sees one of the

> two files as a very short burst of static, but the other it can't

> recognize.  I also tried:

>

> cat Audio1-01 > /dev/dsp, which of course gave an incoherent squeal.

>

> nevertheless I'm pretty confident they really are audio files.

>

> soooo... what tools would you suggest I use to determine the file's

> origins and type?  

   did you try the obvious 'file Audio1-01'. It might know something

about the file.
	erik