Runabc.tcl

Runabc is a graphical user interface to several command line driven programs for processing abc files. It is written in Tcl/Tk script and will run on any computer or operating system in which Tcl/Tk is installed. This includes Windows, Unix, Linux and Macintosh. The script now provides graphical user interfaces to abc2abc, abc2midi, abc2ps, abcm2ps and yaps. You also need a midi player and a postscript viewer. If you are running on Windows (95,98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7) or Linux on the i386 you can get many of the executables here and also from the web site The ABC Plus Homepage. For other systems you will probably need to download the sources and compile them yourself. The link below illustrates the operation of this program. The link install.html provides links to web sites where you can get the various components to run the program.

runabc.html describes what this program does. Updated 2013-04-18 You can also download the entire documentation in a zip file runabc_html.zip. Updated 2013-04-18.

You can download the latest version of runabc.tcl here

runabc.zip		1.811	May 11 2013
runabc.exe		1.810	May 01 2013
runabc.kit		1.810	May 01 2013
Runabc_setup.exe		1.810	May 01 2013

runabc.exe has Tcl/Tk built in for Windows users who do not wish to install Tcl/Tk 8.5 on their system. Runabc.exe was now created using tclkit (http://www.equi4.com/tclkit.html) instead of freewrap (http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/). It is no longer necessary to compact it with winzip. It is ready to run. First save it to your hard drive and then run (no installs).

runabc.kit will run without tcl/tk on almost any system where tclkit has been installed. See install.html for details.

For Windows system, Runabc_setup.exe will install runabc.exe and the abcMIDI executables, and create shortcuts on your start button and Desktop. By default the programs are installed on c:\runabc folder; if you choose to put it in c:\Program Files\ and you are also running Windows 7, then it is necessary to change the permissions of the installed folder to allow write access.

abcMIDI

The latest version is abcMIDI-2013-05-10.zip May 10 2013.

Older versions can be found in oldversions.html.

Executables for the Microsoft Windows operating systems are also available in the zip file abcmidi_win32.zip. This file was updated on May 10 2013 (includes abcm2ps-6.6.22 executable).

Documentation abc2midi guide . The guide was updated April 18 2013.

Sample abc files I made or edited

Other abc file links may be found in The abc Homepage.

May 07 2013: new version of abcmatch in abcMIDI package.

May 10 2013: new version of midicopy in abcMIDI package

seymour.shlien@crc.ca.