From Wayne Cripps' Lute Page:
The most productive professional tab users use tab by mail. They don't have
to worry about setting it up on their machines and always have the latest
version.
a.. You can send tab source to the e-mail server,
[email protected] as part of the body of your message and not as an
enclosure. Be sure to go to your mail reader's settings panel and look for
sending options, and send the mail as "plain text".
b.. You will get a postscript formatted document in the return mail. When
the return mail comes, some mail readers will save the PostScript enclosure
to a file for you, and you can print the file. If you mail reader does not
do this you can delete the mail headers, so that the letters
%!PS
are the very first characters on the very first line of your file, and send
it to a printer. If you are running an old version of DOS you *may* have to
insert a control-D (0x4) at the beginning of the postscript file. Then you
send it to your laserwriter as you do other files.
c.. if the Subject line is Subject: midi-tab you will get a midi file in
the return mail instead of PostScript.
d.. There is a lot of spam on the net these days, and tab-by-mail gets its
share! So I have had to put in some traps to catch the spam. In particular,
if you send your tab source file as an enclosure it may disappear. If your
tab source file does not have any bar lines it may also disappear. If you
think this is happening to you let me know!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Loos" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 2:47 PM
Subject: [LUTE] TAB-files
Dear friends,
In several ways I tried to open and print tablatures (in Windows XP
professional) downloaded as TAB-files , e.g. Ghost or installing
Django. But in non of these cases I succeed.
Who can give me an advise.
Thanks,
Wim Loos
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