Date   : Mon, 26 Feb 1996 13:09:42 +0100
From   : Ole Stauning <os@...>
Subject: BBC Tape Utility announcement

DESCRIPTION
==========

The BBC tape utility  runs on a Linux system with a digital audio 
device, such as /dev/dsp. It can be used to load and save BBC-format
tape files. Both loading and saving can be used realtime while the
tape runs. You can also read and write WAV-format files on your 
hard disk, for example if you wish to do some non-realtime filtering. 
Decoding files from harddisk is approximately 18 times faster than
when decoding from tape (at least on my P100), and the process uses
little cpu time.


THE COMMANDS
===========

bbc-load [options] [filename]
bbc-save [options] tape-filename load-address exec-address [filename]

options             | Description              | default value
-d device           | use another device file. | /dev/dsp
-f freq Hz          | sample frequency.        | 44100
-r baud-rate        | baud rate of file.       | 1200
-s block-size       | block size of file.      | 256
-b start/stop bits  | start and stop bits.     | 0/1
-w wav-file         | use wav file.            |

NOTE: '-' can is used as a wav-filename to specify in-/output
      from/to stdin/stdout. This utility is meant to be used with
      the programs sox and vrec to filter noicy data.


You can get it by pointing to

   http://www.imm.dtu.dk/documents/users/os/bbctapeutil0.9.tar.gz

If you have problems downloading. Then send me an email, and i will
send you the file uuencoded.


Regards 

Ole Stauning <os@...> 


P.s. why not use WAV's as BBC tape format files??  (this was a joke!)



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