Re: Echo sound card software<--Rubywand!!

["Michael Uman" <michael_uman@sonic.com>]

HeyNow,

I have the ORIGINAL ECHO II Disk... Just found it last night... It appears
to be good {The disks were sitting in my garage for almost 10 years now}.

Email me with questions...

Michael Uman
Sr. Software Engineer
Sonic Solutions
mailto:michaelauman@thegrid.net
mailto:michael_uman@sonic.com

Bart wrote in message ...
>Rubywand: you wrote this about a month ago  or so..
>
>1. is it (the CABI directory) still there? 2 is it mirrored somewhere; CABI
>seems down?
>3. is Tarnover mirrored? it seems down too.
>
>
>In article <38898ED3.A130570@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net says...
>>
>>ernestls writes ...
>>>
>>> How do I open/transfer a .shk file?
>>>
>>> Specifically, I'm trying to get the software for my Echo II card, and
>>> there's a file at:
>>>
>>> ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/Music.and.Sound/Echo_II_cardDO.SHK
>>>
>>> ...that I would like to be able to use. I'm not sure if this is the
>software
>>> that I'm looking for but it might be. Any help here would be most
>>> appreciated. TIA
>> ....
>>
>>     The original .shk file is pretty large, about 474k, which makes it
too
>>large to transfer to 5.25" diskette. I moved it to our IIgs, unshrinked
it,
>and
>>re-shrinked the contents into five smaller .shk files which can be
>transferred
>>to 5.25" disk. They have been uploaded to an Echo folder on ACN Florida at
>>ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/Music.and.Sound/
>>
>>     When the big ShrinkIt file is unshrinked, you get mainly a bunch of
>files
>>named "D000", "D001", ... "D034". What's weird is that the files seem to
be
>>highly compressed but no utility I've tried can uncompress them.
>>
>>     Also, there seem to be too many files to be software; which leads me
to
>>suspect that the files contain documentation. (Not sure, though.)
>>
>>     So, you could end up wasting your time messing with the files.
Perhaps
>>someone who has some Echo software will upload it to Ground or Asimov or
>>another archive and post a message here.
>>
>>
>>
>>Rubywand
>