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- From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: INFO: sound and all other info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.050958.24295@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 05:57:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov21.050958.24295
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- Lines: 126
- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
-
-
- > > What is the theory behind creating the illusion of a sound emanating
-
- > Slightly off the subject, about two years ago someone posted to this group th
- > names and addresses of a few companies that make boards for IBMs and Macs tha
- > simulate sound in a three-dimensional environment, for VR use. If you're sti
- > out there, could you please re-post that information? My copy of that postin
- > is now in data heaven.
-
- This, and a thousand and one similar items, are in the great archives that
- Mark Deloura maintains for the group.
-
- For all those people with questions starting with, "Where do I find ...",
- "What is the number for ...", "Which unis do work in ...", and so on,
- you can get some great info from the archives.
-
- Since I (as one) had some trouble first figuring out how to do this,
- I have posted below a "captured" session in which I get the README files
- from the FAQ. (These tell you which files to ftp for various products.)
-
- Oh, if you find that the info you want is not in the archives, or is
- badly out of date, then doing the footwork and posting the results
- is usually appreciated by the group. But watch out--the archives are
- so big you might miss a few tunnels if you're not careful!
-
- (I know this is old stuff, but lots of readers of sci-vw are new, and
- I hope a post of this info will avoid them being disappointed when
- everyone else ignores them (for not looking in the archives first).
- Maybe the reduction in "Where do I get ..." postings will partly compensate
- for my eating up bandwidth recently. <grin>)
-
- Comments by me are in [ .. .. ], and are not part of the session.
-
- /u/jpc>ftp ftp.u.washington.edu
- Connected to milton.u.washington.edu.
- 220 milton FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.7 1991/05/06 17:46:10 $) ready.
- Name (milton.u.washington.edu:jpc): anonymous
- 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
- Password: [ .. give 'em your name or something as a password .. ]
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp> cd public
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> cd virtual-worlds
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> binary
- 200 Type set to I.
- ftp> dir
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
- total 2970
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 1465 Jul 22 15:49 README
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 17455 Oct 21 19:06 TheRealFAQ
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Apr 14 1992 cheap-vr
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Jul 22 16:01 citations
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Nov 6 18:04 currentPapers
- drwxr-xr-x 10 5712 30 512 May 9 1992 faq
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 3000320 Nov 13 10:23 faq.tar
- drwxr-xr-x 5 5712 30 1024 Apr 16 1992 postings
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 May 29 22:26 veos
- 226 Transfer complete.
- ftp> cd faq
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> dir
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
- total 9
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Jan 26 1992 citations
- drwxr-xr-x 4 5712 30 1536 Apr 26 1992 commercial
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 1024 Jun 9 00:28 conf
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 1024 Jun 9 00:28 other
- drwxr-xr-x 3 5712 30 1024 Jul 8 18:57 papers
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Apr 25 1992 publications
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 512 Apr 25 1992 rsrch
- drwxr-xr-x 2 5712 30 1024 Nov 4 20:16 schools
- 226 Transfer complete.
- ftp> cd commercial
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> dir
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes).
- total 115
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 1803 Jan 26 1992 3d.digitizers
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 1871 Jan 26 1992 AGE
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 541 Jan 26 1992 Alias
- [ .. many lines deleted .. ]
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 110 Apr 25 1992 README.3dsound
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 514 Apr 25 1992 README.displays
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 196 Apr 25 1992 README.gloves
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 279 Apr 25 1992 README.hardware
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 545 Apr 25 1992 README.other
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 356 Apr 25 1992 README.software
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 376 Apr 25 1992 README.trackers
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 505 Jan 2 1992 Reflection
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 1595 Jul 2 17:49 Sega
- [ .. many more lines deleted .. ]
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 4282 Apr 7 1992 Worldesign
- -rw-r--r-- 1 5712 30 5550 Jan 9 1992 Xtensory
- 226 Transfer complete.
- ftp> mget README.* [ .. mget is for many files. get is for one file .. ]
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for README.3dsound (binary mode) (110 bytes).
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 110 bytes received in 0.01115 seconds (9.633 Kbytes/s)
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening data connection for README.displays (binary mode) (514 bytes).
- [ .. etc., for each file; many lines like this deleted .. ]
- 226 Transfer complete.
- 376 bytes received in 0.02678 seconds (13.71 Kbytes/s)
- ftp> bye
- 221 Goodbye.
- /u/jpc>type README.* [ .. for a Unix machine .. ]
-
-
- ... and that's all there is to it! When you know what files you need,
- you can go back for them. Don't forget the thing's like a big labyrinth when
- you first walk in, so you might need to look through the directories to
- find what you want.
-
- Hope this is of help to some.
-
- John
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