[slim] Re: shorten, os x, and 6.1... help

2005-09-28 Thread Scott
How do I go about doing this? sb -- Scott ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Re: [slim] Re: shorten, os x, and 6.1... help

2005-09-28 Thread kdf
On 28-Sep-05, at 10:21 PM, Scott wrote: How do I go about doing this? http://mtdshn.home.mchsi.com/macosxshn/ then, probably install it. then hopefully the binary will be found by slimserver. If not, find where shorten is installed and copy it to

Re: [slim] Re: Shorten files on Windows

2005-04-15 Thread Roy Owen
Older versions of Windows and DOS you need to specify the actual device ie: COM1, COM2, LPTx... Although I believe PRN defaults to LPT1. CON and STDOUT are the same in DOS. Just some old trivia floating around in an old programmers head...On 4/14/05, Michael Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Quoting

Re: [slim] Re: Shorten files on Windows

2005-04-14 Thread kdf
Quoting Tiersten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: This depends on someone with some expertise on shorten having a willingness to help. so far, the only well-known way to extract information about a given shorten file (info needed for slimserver to play the file) is to quickly uncompress

[slim] Re: Shorten files on Windows

2005-04-14 Thread Tiersten
kdf Wrote: That's the first I've ever heard of it, aside from being a constant. Does it take redirects? Yes. You can redirect stdout or stderr to it. It'd be 2 nul instead. -- Tiersten ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [slim] Re: Shorten files on Windows

2005-04-14 Thread kdf
Quoting Tiersten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: kdf Wrote: That's the first I've ever heard of it, aside from being a constant. Does it take redirects? Yes. You can redirect stdout or stderr to it. It'd be 2 nul instead. Thanks for the tip. It shows some promise, though it is still

Re: [slim] Re: Shorten files on Windows

2005-04-14 Thread Michael Scott
Quoting kdf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't you use NUL? Thats the equiv of /dev/null for Windows. It exists in every directory as a hidden special file. That's the first I've ever heard of it, aside from being a constant. Does it take redirects? Yup. It's something else Microsoft borrowed

Re: [slim] Re: shorten

2005-03-13 Thread Phil Karn
kdf wrote: to make things worse, systems like windows dont like /dev/null so the server spits out a warning for every shorten file it finds and never adds them to the db properly. I have only about 10 shorten files. Only 2 are playable with slimserver. I have tried to find alternative ways of

[slim] Re: shorten (was: SB2 and FLAC)

2005-03-11 Thread kdf
Quoting Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:35:54 -0800, Phil Karn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shorten still seems to be popular on bt.etree.org and other sites where audience recordings of taper-friendly bands are traded. I can't figure out why, as flac seems to be