John Chambers wrote:
> 1. Have several files on your server, for the ABC and its translation
> to  the  other  formats (PS, GIF, MIDI, whatever).  This is fast, but
> takes a LOT of disk space.  ABC is small; all the other  formats  are
> hundreds or thousands of times bigger.
 
Not quite true... MIDI is only about 4 times bigger, GIF or PNG 
about 12 times bigger. So even a big abc collection, e.g. mine 
which is 654 kB, would only require about 11 MB total for having 
abc, gif and midi. This is much better IMO than loading down the 
CPU with conversions. I run a web server myself at work, and I 
would rather have an abc collection taking 11 or even 110 MB than 
have it bog down the CPU with programs to run for every GIF or 
MIDI download.


Henrik Norbeck, Stockholm, Sweden
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