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1.1       root        1: This directory contains two example programs to read and write data
                      2: between the MIDI driver and standard Level 0 midifile.  The Midifile
                      3: format is specified by the MIDI Manufacturer's Association, and is a
                      4: machine independant format allowing the interchange of MIDI (Musical
                      5: Instrument Digital Interface) sequence data.
                      6: 
                      7: The program playmidifile reads a standard Level 0 midifile and plays
                      8: it out through the MIDI driver.  This program illustrates both how to
                      9: parse a midifile and how to use the MIDI driver in a simple
                     10: application.  The playback may optionally be synchronized to incoming
                     11: MIDI time code.
                     12:  
                     13: The program recordmidifile read MIDI data from the MIDI driver and
                     14: writes directly to a file in the standard Level 0 midifile format.
                     15: This simple commandline utility records MIDI data until control-c is
                     16: typed, which then causes the collected data to be written to a file.
                     17: The times may be derived from the system clock or from incoming MIDI
                     18: time code.
                     19: 
                     20: For both utilities, the user must supply a file name argument, and can
                     21: give an argument to specify which serial port to accept data on.  He
                     22: can also specify a serial port to accept MIDI time code from.
                     23: 
                     24: There are a couple of test midifiles supplied to serve as simple
                     25: examples; they of course require a MIDI synthesizer to play them on.
                     26: See the MIDI driver documentation for further information about the
                     27: MIDI driver and about MIDI interfaces that works with the NeXT serial
                     28: ports.
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