Thanks to all who helped me, especially, Richard, Buddha Buck and John. With little modifications, it works well. I'll try to learn in the future more of those basic commands by myself.
Richard said : >I have various stuff in perl to do these kinds of things - abc-cat, >abc-grep, abc-sort, etc etc, by rough analogy to what you'd expect from >/.../ >comprehensibly commented). Would there be much demand for something like >this, or has every other unix-er already got their own ? I'd like to try your perl tools Richard. If you don't mind to send them to me. Thanks in advance. I'll try those made by John Chamber too. Perl seems to be a fantastic script tool. John said : >This one "abuses" the P header line, by generating pages that use a >single initial T line to give a title to the page, and then changes >the tune T lines into P lines. Each tune then becomes a "part" in a >medley. This sort of thing has led to a bit of debate in the past. >For some musical uses, it's a really useful way to interpret the >concept of a "part". this one abuses also several abc tools or programs I use, when I open such files in them :( >This encourages you to put your tunes >into single-tune files. >Putting a lot of tunes into a big file is convenient for downloading >all of them. But if you actually want to use the tunes, a big file >pretty much prevents using all the usual directory tools. That's right I don't do intense use of small files and large amount of directories, but I fear that acting such would overflow my hard disk. I've allready so many files on it. Isn't the allocation table limited in some extends ? And for working with abc (editing, creating or searching) I use a really conveniant program, it's called EditPad (www.jgsoft.com), probably the best ascii editor for window$. I wish there would be such an editor for unix-based system. People will say : "there is : try Emacs, try Jed, try Vim, try Sed etc." but none of them are so small and easy to use, just for editing many ascii files at the same time and find, copy & paste informations in them. For me, abc files with between 20 and 150 tunes in them are at a "good" length (like for the Village Music Project). But the largest I have is the one with the 1850 O'Neill in them :) ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
