Philippe Sauv� wrote: >Point 1 - In writing abc files, I copied & reused several times the same >SimpleTex dossier > >After a whyle, the dossier got corrupted and made BarFly crash >systematicaly. > >It stopped when I copied the content to a new dossier.
BarFly saves various bits of extra information in the file's resource fork: text formatting, viewing mode, shape and position of the window etc. Sometimes this information gets corrupted. If this happens, you can force the program to ignore the bad data by holding down the option (alt) key while you issue the open command. You will lose any text formatting, colours etc. and the file will open as plain text. Alternately, as you have discovered, you can rescue the contents by using another text editor to open the file and then copying the text to a new file. >Point 2 - Is there, for IBM/DOS/Window users an �quivalent to BarFly Henrik Norbeck's abcMus is a very good abc player. MUSE and Melody Assistant (which is multilingual, including French) are both music editors which can import and export abc. If you have been using standard abc 1.6 everything will work OK (BarFly plays and displays all of the 1200+ tunes on Henrik's site correctly, so I guess it should work the other way round too). If you have been using the program's more advanced features (redefinable symbols, macros, multivoice or Gregorian notation) you will have some problems. Mail me off list if you need any more help. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
