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From: "Robert Dzerk - WSEC 147, 472-6933" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Need help with midi/serial port.

Barry:

I read your August 31, 1993 post to the amigae group in the AUG E archive
on wuarchive.wustl.edu's aminet.   I have not been able to get the
SEP-OCT archives, so I apologize if this has already been discussed.

I am writing a midi librarian/editor in E.  I am currently executing
AREXX scripts from my E program that execute external programs that send and
receive midi messages via the serial port.  These programs came with and
use Bill Barton's midi.library v2.0.  This works but is overly cumbersome.
I am doing it this way because I have no idea of how to access the serial
port directly from E.   I have written similar programs in C, but I now wish
to use E because of E's compilation speed and ease with which you can code
the Amiga specific stuff (and I don't have the 2.0 includes for C).

Ideally I would like to have E modules for the midi.library.  I tried
to use iconvert on the midi.library .i files but it chokes--it creates objects
that have no size.  I don't know enough about E or E modules to figure out
how to make the modules.

Since I could not build the midi.library E modules, I thought I might try
sending midi messages using code based on your sert.e example that you posted
for Vinnie.

In sert.e you included the "serlib" and "libraries/serlib" modules.
These modules were not contained with the Amiga E that I downloaded from
wuarchive.  Is there some site that I could FTP these modules?

Also...are there any ftp sites or other sources of information on E
and E library modules (I already know about aminet sites)?
Perhaps someone has already created modules for the midi.library?

I appreciate your taking the time to read this message and hope you
can help me.

Thanks,
 -Bob
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