SO WHAT IS THE MUSIC PROGRAM ANYWAY?
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The manual comes in MUSICZIP.EXE and has all the details for the program
but this gives a quick overview of MUSIC.  See the manual for all the 
juicy details (MUSICDOC.PS and MUSICDOC.PCL for PostScript and 
HP LaserJet II compatible printers).

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                            <<< MUSIC.EXE >>> 

                         The Electronic Song Book

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  The MUSIC program, in a nutshell, lets you keep a collection of songs
(chord/lyric line pairs) in "song drawers".  You can have as many
song drawers as you like to keep songs grouped together by subject such
as "Christmas songs" or "Wedding songs" or "Campfire songs".  Each song
drawer can contain up to 900 songs.
  MUSIC is a user-friendly program that anyone can use to print song 
books (with or without the chords), transpose songs (change the key it's 
played in), print songs with modulations and keep track of song 
selection lists (extremely helpful for churches and those who have to 
keep track of how many times songs are used for licensing requirements
such as CCLI requires from licensed churches).
  MUSIC has its own built-in song editor which is specially taylored for 
entering songs.  All MUSIC data files are simple text files for those of
you who may want to import songs from a collection you may have from
somewhere else or do any strange hacking to accomplish something MUSIC
cannot do directly (which will not be necessary for most of you).
  MUSIC supports any color monitor but if you have an old Monochrome PC
then MUSIC will automatically detect it and run in B&W mode.  The program
and data files are really small so you could even run it off of a floppy
disk if you wanted to and still fit several hundred songs on the same 
disk as the program.

  MUSIC has the following menu options:
	Main Menu window
		New       (creates new song)
		Print     (prints songs in order selected)
		Transpose (change the key the song is in)
		Edit      (uses built-in editor)
		Save      (writes song file to disk)
		Abort     (Abort changes to a song I messed up)
		Delete    (delete selected songs)
		Rename    (allows you to chg song title and/or file name)
		Quit      (quit the MUSIC program)
	Song Drawer Tools window
		Alphabetize songs
		Copy songs          (to another song drawer)
		Song name display   (show song names in song window)
		File name display   (show song filenames in song window)
		Get another drawer  (load a song drawer)
		Build a song drawer (create a new song drawer)
		ReBuild this drawer (fixes any problems by reading each file)
		Delete this drawer  (removes song drawer files & directory)
		Lists menu          (powerful song selection lists manager)
	Utilities window
		Configure MUSIC prog. (not implemented)
	Choose window
		All   (select all songs)
		None  (unselect all songs)
		Multi (allow multiple songs to be selected)
		One   (only allow one song to be selected: each selection
		       unselects the last selection first)

It also has a full [F1] help screen that tells you short cuts and useful
stuff.  The print option pulls up a print screen that will print all the
selected songs in the order they were selected in.  This order is displayed
in the songs windows while they are being selected.  The print options
currently are...

 Send output to Printer or File (P/F):
                            File Name:   (if File)
                    Print Modulations?
                         Print Chords?
       Double space between line sets?
          Underline title with dashes?
            Page feed after each song?   (Y/N/Fit)
Print song index number and file name?
               Indent how many spaces?   (99=auto-center)
            Print a table of contents?   (Y/N/Only)
      Print with LaserJet-Bold chords?   (modulations toggle: bold/normal)
      Print with LaserJet small print?

This allows a great deal of flexibility, and where this isn't good enough,
you can send it to a file and format the text just the way you want it
in a word processor.

MUSIC Specifications
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  Max song drawers:     unlimited (DOS subdirectories)
  Max songs per drawer: 900
  Max lines per song:   300
  Max chars per line:   78
  Operating system:     MS DOS (PC DOS) any version
  PC Requirements:      A keyboard is handy.  Auto-detects Color or B&W.
  Language written in:  Borland's Turbo C++ v3.1
  Program size:         200k
  Song file size:       about 600 bytes on average (straight text)

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           _____           _____                              Chris Pierce
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    |    /    /    /  \   |     /            "You can't depend on you eyes
    |he  \    \   /    \  |   _/              when your imagination is out
          \____\ /______\ |__|                of focus" -- mTwain
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