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29 Jul 2024 02:25:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Binary file I/O?  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 17 Apr 2003 09:34:01
Message: <3e9ead49@news.povray.org>
Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Just a quick one... Would it be possible to get POV-Ray to read/write
> binary files? (As opposed to plain text?)
> 
> Why am I asking? Well, not content with making a microprocessor emulator
> with the SDL, I'm now thinking about making a sound synthesiser, so I want
> to be able to write .WAV files 

What about using an ASCII sound format. According to the manual, sox
(http://sox.sourceforge.net/) can read and write DAT files, which are
a text representation of audio data. This is perhaps easier than
discussing this binary data subject again.

I hope this helps
Thomas


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