Frank Nordberg wrote:
| Unless somebody can recommend some good bulk downlaoding software,
| of course
The Windows web-spider application Teleport Pro is pretty good. The free
version has a limit of 500 files per download session, but for most purposes
that's plenty. See:
Phil Taylor wrote:
It sounds as if your zipped midi files were in MacBinary format.
You should be able to turn that off in your zip program (if you
use Zipit, it puts the letters 'mb' in the right-hand column of
the contents table. Click on that to turn it off.)
Thanks, Phil. I'll try
I spent some time listening to the midi files last night, and I
have to say that the arrangements are absolutely lovely. I can
find very little to criticise. For my personal taste, they
sound a bit too (er) musically educated (I like my folk music
with a bit more shit on its boots), but it
I've accidentally written some band arrangements to a couple of
English, Irish and Scottish tunes. And since I'm not exactly an expert
on this subject, I wondered if someone who knows better than me could
have a look at:
http://www.musicaviva.com/folkband/
and tell me what they thought.
Jack Campin wrote:
I've accidentally written some band arrangements to a couple of
English, Irish and Scottish tunes. And since I'm not exactly an expert
on this subject, I wondered if someone who knows better than me could
have a look at:
http://www.musicaviva.com/folkband/
and
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:04:29PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote:
| Unless somebody can recommend some good bulk downlaoding software,
| of course
'wget' for *nix (command line) or gtm (GNOME Transfer Manager).
Incidentally, gtm uses wget as the backend implementation. With gtm I
can simply
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:04:29PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote:
| Unless somebody can recommend some good bulk downlaoding software
I almost forgot : for Windows users there's Hands Down. It was
mentioned in PC Magazine once, and is free ($$ not freedom, IIRC) on
ZDNet.
-D
To
bert van vreckem wrote:
I don't seem to be able to open your midi's, though (I'm using
WinAmp on an NT 4.0 box.) The pdf's are fine, so it's not a
corrupted zip file.
There is something odd about these midi files on a Mac too (I downloaded
the .hqx version). They all appear with the default
Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
I don't seem to be able to open your midi's, though (I'm using WinAmp on
an NT 4.0 box.) The pdf's are fine, so it's not a corrupted zip file.
There appears to be a (Mac-related?) header at the beginning of every
midi file. If I removed the first 128 bytes (using a hex
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote:
| Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
| To create a gzip, you should `tar' your files first:
|
| Oh. I thought .tar was just for text files.
tar actually stands for Tape ARchive because it was originally
developed for the purpose of storing
Phil Taylor wrote:
Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
| To create a gzip, you should `tar' your files first:
|
| tar cvf folkband.tar folkband/ | gzip
On a Mac use SunTar to make the tar archive (you can set its options
to leave out the resource forks) then drag that onto MacGzip. You
Frank Nordberg wrote:
But in any case it's not as if the compressed archives saves any
downloading time. The self-extracting hqx archive is actually
considerably *larger* than the individual files, while the zip archive
only saves 8%. I just thought it'd be a good idea for visitors to just
have
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