PHILIP'S MUSIC WRITER

UNIX AND UNIX-LIKE SYSTEMS

I hope that this version of the program will run without problems on all Unix and Unix-like systems. It should just be a matter of typing

./configure
make
make install

to get youself an installed pmw command. There is a man page that lists the command arguments. However, the main documentation is provided only as a PDF file in the doc directory. The reason for this is that characters from the music font appear in the text, and I don't know of any other way of providing text of this kind.

OTHER SYSTEMS

PMW consists almost entirely of Standard C code, and so it should be possible to compile it on any system with a Standard C compiler and library. There is just one small code section that is Unix-dependent; this is the code that looks for default options in the user's .pmwrc file. This code can be disabled by defining -DNO_PMWRC when compiling the init.c module. If you are in an environment where ./configure can be used, running it as

./configure --disable-pmwrc

will have the desired effect.

Philip Hazel <ph10 [AT] cus.cam.ac.uk>
September 2005

LICENCE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA