RE: [abcusers] Distributing DLLs
Title: RE: [abcusers] Distributing DLLs PROPER setups will only replace DLLs with NEWER versions. The embedded version numbering/date resource fields are checked. A setup should NEVER EVER replace a DLL with an older one. Anyone distributing such a monster should be hung from the thumbs until dead. Some setups are courteous and ASK whether to substitute the newer version. Might mean a few extra clicks now and then but it will let one protect that all-to-fragile Windows 98. BTW, I have had too many fatal problems with InstallShield distributions. I have never crashed from WinZip self-installers or Wize setups. This, I hope, with all its implications, is self-explanatory.
Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error
John Chambers wrote: Frank wrote: | Laura Conrad wrote: | so saying: | abc2ps -maxs 2000 | should do the trick. | | That did the job. Thanks a lot Laura :* Huh? I thought command-line args weren't allowed on macs. ;-) The system doesn't allow it, but there's nothing to stop individual programs from asking for parameters that way (except, of course that users hate it). There are three stages in porting a unix program to the mac. The first and crudest way is to compile the code within a drop shell, which is what I've done with yaps. To use it, you grab a bunch of files with the mouse and drag them onto the program's icon. When you let go the program runs and writes its output to the same directory that the input files are in. There's no official way to change the input parameters. (There is a sneaky way though - if you make a new empty folder named e.g. "-maxs 2000" (a perfectly legal Mac directory name) and include that in the drop it will do the trick. The second way is to compile the program as a console application. This puts up a text window when it starts into which you can type parameter lists. This is the way that abc4mac works. Finally you can do the thing properly. and write a proper Mac program with menus and dialog boxes which present all the available options to the user, letting them select what they want by clicking on checkboxes, radio buttons and other such GUI stuff. This is the way that Thurman Gillespy's MacMidi2abc works, and very nice it is. The big advantage of this is that you don't have to remember all the command line options; they are already laid out for you | That's right. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. I got almost | desperate enought o read the manual ;) Good thing we could save you from that ultimate embarrassment. Well exactly. | "I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that | they make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds | | Are you really, really sure about that ? Here's a relevant document that I nabbed a copy of a few years ago: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/BillAndSatan.html Brilliant! Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [abcusers] abc2abc error
I blush, you're right off course. Stupid me Still I don't know which sucker sneaked into my filestystem and changed that meter setting while I was sleeping ;-) On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, John Atchley wrote: Try changing the M: field to 4/4 ;-) On Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:23 PM, Atte Andre Jensen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hi there I get funny things like "%Error bar 1 is 1/1 not in 1/4" for every bar with this tune, trying to transpose it using abc2abc file.abc -t -2 out.abc. Usually It works fine, but not in this case. Does anybody have a clue??? snip M:1/4 snip -- Atte André Jensen "I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error
Phil Taylor wrote: Finally you can do the thing properly. and write a proper Mac program with menus and dialog boxes which present all the available options to the user, letting them select what they want by clicking on checkboxes, radio buttons and other such GUI stuff. This is the way that Thurman Gillespy's MacMidi2abc works, and very nice it is. The big advantage of this is that you don't have to remember all the command line options; they are already laid out for you Where can I get that MacMidi2abc? The obnly one I knew about was the one that came with abc4mac, and that isn't nearly as sophisticated as that. Frank Nordberg To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc and as midis at: http://home.online.no/~frnordbe/oneill-1001-midis (the midi URL is temporary) I feel I've got the right to brag a bit here. The project I think is already one of the biggest single-transcriber ABC projects ever done (and it'll be twice as big when it's finished) and it also means that I now have more than 1000 of my own ABC transcriptions on my web site. The midis should be good examples of the possibilities of BarFly's ornament macros and stress programming, btw. Nos 51-500 are almost plain BarFly output. Postprocessing is limited to adding reverb an a copyright note (and removing some superfluous midi commands) Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error
Anybody interested in taking over maintenance of abc4mac? with the best of intentions, I never seem to get to it... I can make the source available to anyone with CodeWarrior wil Frank Nordberg wrote: Laura Conrad wrote: abc2ps -h says: Alloc options: -maxs n set maximal number of symbols (default 800) -maxv n set maximal number of voices (default 4) so saying: abc2ps -maxs 2000 should do the trick. That did the job. Thanks a lot Laura :* (And a small reminder to all abc4mac users: remember to choose "save preferences" after doing changes. Unlike most Mac programs it doesn't do that automatically.) Atte Andre Jensen wrote: I'm using Michael's abc2ps and it lets you parse this on as parameters, maxs=800 or whatever. Sure that's not the case with your version also??? That's right. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. I got almost desperate enought o read the manual ;) "I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems." - Linus Torvalds Are you really, really sure about that ? Frank To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5 "... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain ..." To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
Wow! Are you wearing bifocals yet?! From: Frank Nordberg I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [abcusers] abc2abc error
It was probably that noteworthy virus, the one that subtley corrupts abc files... From: Atte Andre Jensen I blush, you're right off course. Stupid me Still I don't know which sucker sneaked into my filestystem and changed that meter setting while I was sleeping ;-) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error
Frank wrote: Where can I get that MacMidi2abc? The obnly one I knew about was the one that came with abc4mac, and that isn't nearly as sophisticated as that. I beta tested it back in April, and it was very good then. I assumed that he would have released it by now. I've just mailed him to see if it's OK to give out his email address. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
Frank Nordberg wrote: In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free time? I can't even find the time to transcribe the odd one hundred tunes I'd like to put on-line... -- Bert Van Vreckem Give a man a fire and he is warm for a day Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life -- John A. Hrastar. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
| Frank Nordberg wrote: | In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: | | I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project. | The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of | Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available as ABC at: | http://www.musicaviva.com/abc/oneill-1001-1-500.abc | | Dzjeez, what kind of a job do you have that leaves you with so much free | time? I can't even find the time to transcribe the odd one hundred tunes | I'd like to put on-line... Meanwhile, I told my ABC bot about Henrik's .../abc/abcusers/ directory and about the above URL, and the number of ABC titles listed for www.musicaviva.com nearly doubled. The reason that the abcusers/ directory hadn't been scanned was that it was too far from my starting URL. I've found that it's a good idea to limit the depth of Web searches to 3 hops, to avoid trying to search the whole Web for ABC. This isn't very productive; having other people spot new ABC sites and tell me about them is far more practical. And the oneill-1001-1-500.abc doesn't seem to be pointed to by an link, so it would have never been found. I've wondered about O'Neill's 1001 myself; it's nice to see someone so masochistic as to take it on. But I wonder about putting it all in one huge file. This will lead to a lot of slow downloads for people just looking for a tune or three. So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of that were there?) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[abcusers] Is anything missing?
Henrik said: In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently: I've been a bit quiet, too, in part because of a bit of reprogramming of my ABC search bot. I thought I'd mention it now because I just ran a full search, and thought people might like to check with my tune finder (http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html) and see if any of your tunes are missing. The reason for this is something that I'd sorta been wondering about since I started hearing, a few months ago, about a new breed of web search program. The problem was all the "hidden" web pages that are not on disk as files, but are generated on the fly by programs. It seems that the big search sites are developing tools to extract these "hidden pages" and index them. When I first heard this, my thought was "Uh, oh ..." Last week, my fears came true. A couple of search programs learned how to invoke my tune finder's scripts and the resulting pages with their links to scripts that convert ABC to PS, GIF, PNG, MIDI and other formats. One little monster was systematically asking for every ABC tune in my indexes, in every format that my scripts know how to return. And it was asking in parallel from a large set of machines. It drove trillian's load average up to 25, filled the disk with temp files, and brought everything to a halt. Luckily the folks who run trillian, at MIT's EE Dept, have a bit of a sense of humor. I actually spotted the disaster before they did, and they had email from me waiting for them. I added a "blacklist" feature to my scripts that knows the IP addresses of the worst culprits and won't talk to them. Meanwhile, I've been put in charge of trillian's robots.txt file, and all the other search bots seem to have been scared away from my own music stuff for the present. My tune finder was a zombie for a day or so, but it has recovered. My own search program now follows a somewhat more complex strategy: It looks for and parses robots.txt files, and mostly obeys them. This has cut its search time in half, actually. But it also compares a URL with its explicit list of "allows" URLs, i.e., its list of starting URLs, and searches them even if the machine's global robots.txt file says not to. This is necessary so that it can search my own ABC files, which are now off limits to searchers. It should find ABC files if they're below a URL in my starting list, even if the machine as a robots.txt file. It did come up with somewhat fewer total tunes than before, though the number isn't very different. The main loss seems to be that perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk has gone away, and its 1077 tunes are also gone. It seems to have gotten flakey some time back, with no response in most attempts. Anyone know what happened to it? Aside from that, there were losses of 1 or 2 ABC files on a number of other sites, but no single huge losses. You might check to see if any of your tunes are missing. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of that were there?) 24 :) You know the books have recently been re-published ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
