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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Basic "PLAY" statement
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Date: 2 Nov 88 21:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger    Nov  2 15:38:00 1988


The BASIC Play command is entirely non-standard, non-portable, and
doesn't contain enough information for any serious music.  Although
there is no standard computer notation, you can store your music as
MIDI data.

			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics 
			University of Illinois 

			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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