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From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sonix problem and comments
Message-ID: <1142@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 03:18:09 EST
Article-I.D.: sugar.1142
Posted: Mon Nov 30 03:18:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 20:11:06 EST
References: <451@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <6678@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: Sonix problem help feedback-sought response
Summary: Some additional information on the Sonix problem

In article <6678@sunybcs.UUCP>, jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza) writes:
> In article <451@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Brent writes ...
> [email no find questar]
> >I'm having trouble with Sonix... certain instruments, namely HighHat
> >and most of the IFF instruments on the Data Disk, won't load. ...
> 
> 	Yeah, had me confused for awhile too.  There's some system
> resource that Sonix needs to load those IFF files.  Try copying one IFF
> instrument to a RAM: disk and load that instrument while the System
> disk is in the drive.  Once Sonix loads that resource it will continue to
> load any succesive IFF files (until reboot, of course).
> 
> 	I haven't played with Sonix for a while so let me know if it works.
> Your mission, Brendt, if you decide to accept it, is to summarize the responses
> and post the solution.  :-)
> 
> Flip side,
> 
> 	joe piazza
 
I, too had been troubled by this problem, and I have yet to find a 
full solution, 'though I know a bit more about it now. What Sonix is
looking for is the ".tech" files from the Miscellaneous directory. These
apparently contain code segments for handling the three types of .instr
files that Sonix will handle. In their infinite wisdom, the authors have
chosen to disable the requstor system, so anything required from a drive
that's not mounted just gets ignored. Loading an instrument of the right
type from the program disk before switching to the data disk gets things
going fine (but what a sloppy hack) The dratted files even EXIST in the
data disk's INSTRUMENT directory, but to no avail. Guess nobody bothered
to check Sonix out on a one-drive system, eh ?? 
If I come up with a better solution, I;'ll let you know.
 
                 Scott Denham 
 
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