Re: MIDI specs

[email protected] ("Noel Lairson") Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:50:03 -0800
Newsgroups perl.midi
Message-ID <002c01c28b80$26910c30$afe9fea9@fido>
Before I dealved into perl and your module, I did look into getting the
official spec - it's always been available from MMA for $50.

As for your other question, I'll just nod and smile and pretend I understand
it and wait for someone who has an informed opinion to answer...
Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: MIDI specs


> Back when I scrounged up the MIDI File Spec file format and PODified it, I
> couldn't find an official source for it.
>
> But apparently it now has (again?) an official maintainer, who,
> regrettably, is charging for the updated versions:
>      http://www.midi.org/about-midi/specinfo.htm#MIDISPEC
> Unpleasant shades of ISO in that more-than-a-buck-a-page stuff, but I
guess
> it's better than having to make do with the nasty old spec, like I had to.
>
> Anyway, someone noticed that I forgot to put my lince text on the
MIDI-Perl
> dist, and that got me thinking that since I didn't write MIDI::Filespec
and
> I can't put my license on it; so I'm thinking of just leaving it out of
the
> next dist.  Would anyone object?  It's not profusely referred-to in the
> rest of the dist, as far as I can tell.
>
> --
> Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/
>