Re: etf2ly.exe doesn't work on Win98

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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Paul Scott wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong but I didn't think ETF was the same as MUS.
>
> Paul Scott

!!! Thank you.  You saved me from wasting time on that!

Looking at a  .MUS file (from Finale Notepad) with a hex editor that also
displays text, the first thing you see is ENIGMA BINARY FORMAT.  I had
mistakenly assumed that Enigma Transport Format was the same thing.

> address@hidden wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I downloaded and unzipped lilypond-tools-2.6.0.zip.
> >I then ran abc2ly.exe on a xxxxxxxx.abc file; this gave me
> >a correct xxxxxxxx.ly file, which I fed to LilyPond, and
> >that gave me both a correct PDF file and a correct midi file.
> >
> >But when I ran etf2ly.exe on a Finale Notepad file 2005test.mus,
> >I got a 2005test.mus.ly file that contained only one single line:
> >
> >% lily was here -- automatically converted by etf2ly from 2005test.mus
> >
> >That .mus file was produced directly with Finale Notepad 2005;
> >it contained a 2-bar scale.