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Need Help with MIDI and E-Mail
By Robbie Rhodes

Some of our foreign Digest members are having problems "unwrapping" and decoding Midi files sent via e-mail. Correspondent Philippe Rouille in Paris asks if there is a simple book for non-specialists, which explains these matters, including how to install and use utilities on his Powerbook Macintosh for operations like UUdecode, BinHex and PKUNZIP. I'm in somewhat the same situation -- as an "off-line" e-mail user with a Macintosh -- and I don't have the automatic services which are included by many Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Fortunately I have an old PC with which I can do PKZIP and PKUNZIP.

Can someone tell our foreign members (and me, too!) where to find Macintosh utilities and information about these off-line operations? Remember, we don't have WWW-browsing or ftp, either; only e-mail.

[ Editor's Note: Several of you have, from time to time, offered to
[ "assist" me with my digest duties. This may be a good time for
[ those of you who have had success with receiving MIDI (and other)
[ files from this Digest or elsewhere on the 'Net to help out.
[
[ Its certainly the case that some of you have have received and played
[ files don't understand _why_ it worked. Thats OK. It would still be
[ useful to know who is receiving files OK. Since there are so many
[ different ways of connecting to the Internet, I'll try to get
[ people with similar circumstances together.
[
[ *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** ***********
[
[ Please consider replying to the following questions if you have ever
[ successfully received a MIDI file or want help doing so:
[
[ Name: ____________________________________________________________
[
[ E-mail address: __________________________________________________
[
[ I want help: _____________________________________________________
[
[ I can provide help to others: ____________________________________
[
[ I have received a MIDI file successfully: ______________________
[
[ I have received a .ZIP file successfully and unzipped it.: _______
[
[ Name of Internet Provider: _______________________________________
[
[ I use a (PC, Mac, Unix Workstation, Other(specify)): ____________
[
[ I run (DOS, Unix, Windows, Windows 95,
[ MAC OS, Other(specify)): __________________________
[
[ I use the following program(s) (specify all that apply):
[
[ Eudora: ______________________________________
[
[ Pegasus: _____________________________________
[
[ PPP (specify vendor): _______________________
[
[ SLIP (specify vendor): _______________________
[
[ UUDECODE (specify vendor): ___________________
[
[ BINHEX: ______________________________________
[
[ BASE64: ______________________________________
[
[ PKZIP: _______________________________________
[
[ STUFFIT: _____________________________________
[
[ COMPACTOR: ____________________________________
[
[ Others (please specify: ______________________
[
[ For shareware programs, _PLEASE_ specify where they
[ can be obtained if you know
[
[ Type of sound card: _________________________________
[
[ Type of MIDI Interface: _____________________________
[
[ Type of Synthesizer: ________________________________
[
[ *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** ***********
[
[ Please fill out and send back to: rolls@foxtail.com
[
[ Thanks!
[
[ Jody


(Message sent Sun 21 Apr 1996, 18:56:37 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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