I'm equally mystified by line-ending character issues, but
1. I confirmed that score.pmx compiles OK under WinXP/MiKTeX with the latest
PMX, with no errors or warnings, and
2. I did fix the link to the Linux tarball...thanks, Bob, for pointing out
that problem.

--Don Simons

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]]
>On Behalf Of Bob Tennent
>Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 6:38 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [TeX-Music] PMX problems
>
>I've been trying to use pmxab to obtain tex files from the four pmx
>files in fairy_queen.zip in
>
>http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/purcell_h/fairy_queen/
>
>on Linux systems. Two of the files (p_bc, p_va) work fine. The other two
>produce, depending on which version of PMX and which Fortran compiler I
>used to compile pmxab.for (f77, f95), either error messages
>
> WARNING:
> Last non-blank character is "", not "/,%"
> ASCII code:           0
>
>at the end of the first pass, or
>
> At line 15468 of file pmxab.for
> Fortran runtime error: End of file
>
>at the end of the second pass, or a segfault in the second pass.
>
>The only successes on those two files came from using f2c followed by
>gcc34.
>
>I've tried various versions of pmx, from 2.5.0 to 2.5.21. I converted
>text files using recode or dos2unix.
>
>I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable in either PMX or Fortran (and not
>sufficiently interested) to analyze this any further, but perhaps some
>of you may wish to report whether you can confirm these observations.
>
>Bob T.
>
>P.S.  The link to the version 2.504 Linux tarball at
>
>http://icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html#pmx
>
>is dead, but 2.5.10 and 2.5.15 are available at
>
>http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pmx/
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