AF Roadmap

Quick Access to Most AF Related Information

Documentation Within This Kit

See the README file for introductory information about AudioFile.
The Release notes and installation instructions contain the detailed instructions for installing this release of AF. This document also contains links to related documents including README files describing device driver installation.
Hypertext versions of the AF man pages are included in the source kit.
We have started accumulating a FAQ list for AF. Feel free to send contributions to this FAQ by sending mail to
af-bugs@crl.dec.com
We have started accumulating app notes that address certain AF topics in more detail than found in the FAQ.
Please see the COPYRIGHTS file for copyright information.

Papers

We have written a fairly lengthy technical report on the design principles behind AF, the protocol, client library, server, and performance. A shorter, but less detailed introduction to AudioFile (AF2R2) can be found in our USENIX paper presented at the Summer 93 USENIX. The accompanying PostScript slides are here.

AF and Related Kits

A kit is also available which contains the source code for the AF system including client library, servers for several systems, and device drivers.

crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/AF

The main distribution site for the latest versions of AF and related documentation. The following are the kit names for AF3.

AF3R1.tar.Z
Released version of AF3R1
AF3R1-patches.tar.Z
Collected set of known patchs to AF3R1.
AF2R2-other.tar
Example sounds bites.
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Watch this space for names of Alpha OSF and Ultrix/RISC prebuilt binary setld kits.

Also, we recommend that you retrieve the Tcl/Tk kit as many of our contributed clients depend on this package.

ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/tcl: The main distribution site for the latest versions of Tcl, Tk, and related documentation.

We generally ship bug fixes and improvements to the kit as patches which can be applied using Larry Wall's patch utility.

gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU: One of the distribution sites for the latest version of patch. gcc can also be found here.

Mailing Lists

af@crl.dec.com: This mailing list should be used for questions and discussion of general interest to the AF user community.
af-request@crl.dec.com: Send mail to this address to request to be added to the "af" mailing list.
af-bugs@crl.dec.com: Bug reports should be sent to this address with an appropriate amount of detail describing the problem you are having.

See this file for Copyright information.

af-bugs@crl.dec.com