[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) wrote: > >I cannot get my any copy of ABCm2ps to operate on my system.
>> The file is there, but > >when it is activated the DOS box flashes on screen the disappears without a > >trace, no minimized indicator on the taskbar, nothing anywhere. > This could be a case of the blind leading the blind, since I'm a Mac > user. However, abcm2ps on the PC is a DOS program, and you have to > start it up from DOS. So put your abc file in the same directory as > the program, start up DOS and cd to the abcm2ps directory. Then > type abcm2ps filename.abc and it should run, creating a postscript > file in the same directory. (There are also some command line switches > you can find out about in the docs that come with the program.) If you don't like running in a DOS box, you can try out a little Windows GUI front end I've thrown together, abcm2psgui.exe . You still need to learn about the command-line options, but I find it useful. Get it from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~emacpher/misc/grab/abcm2psgui.exe and put it in the same directory as abcm2ps.exe . You'll of course need something like Ghostview to view or print the resulting .ps files. cheers, Ewan To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html