From: "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: > > > BTW, a year or so back, I had my tune finder's search bot count the > > tunes that seemed to come from abc2win (because of the ! chars, or > > because they had a "% ... abc2win" comment). It came to between 9 and > > 10% of the tunes. > > Good to have some actual figures! If 1. the above comment means that abc2win always writes its name in a comment and 2. The files which use ! in the middle of a line as a line break are almost all written by abc2win then this is very encouraging news! The standard can be set to say that !...! is a special symbol, and developers can programs to read files on that basis UNLESS the header contains "abc2win" in which case it is a line break! Someone tell me that life really could be that simple! Please!!!!!! Dave David Webber Author of MOZART the music processor for Windows - http://www.mozart.co.uk Member of the North Cheshire Concert Band http://www.northcheshire.org.uk To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html