On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:12:09AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
| A couple of my musician friends don't have computers of their own,
| they use Hotmail or Yahoo accounts at work or at internet cafes.
| Installing an ABC application at either isn't on. Hotmail doesn't
| even know how to display an attached GIF.
What nice service ...
| How can somebody on one of these systems use an emailed ABC file if
| they aren't familiar enough with the notation to read the source?
I think that familiarity with the notation is one of ABCs goals so
that it can be used as-is in plain ASCII form. Anyways, how much
hard drive access is there? Surely the web browser has a cache
directory it can write to at the very least. A solution would be to
save the GIF attachment to that public writable directory and then
point the web browser (or other tool) to that GIF on disk to view it.
It is really hard to use a computer that lacks the necessary tools
when you have to opportunity to install those tools. Maybe the cafe
managers would be willing to listen to suggestions, especially if it
could improve business.
-D
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