David Webber writes: | > 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. | | 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!!!!!!
Um, sorry; it's not that simple. Abc2win does write its name in a comment, but in the worst possible way: It puts the comment at the end of the tune, after a blank line. Yes, it really is outside the tune. And it really is after where you want to know about it. There's nothing in the headers that identifies a tune as coming from abc2win. You have to buffer the entire tune in memory, and examine the text after the tune to see if there's a "%..." line that contains "abc2win". Sorry 'bout dat. There's nothing I can do to fix it. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
