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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple MIDI Driver
Keywords: MIDI
Message-ID: <2477@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Feb 90 13:42:24 GMT
References: <4260@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh
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In-reply-to: saf@floyd.ATT.COM (Steve Falco,14D-327,4865,ATTBL)

In article <4260@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, saf@floyd (Steve Falco,14D-327,4865,ATTBL) writes:
>all outgoing data packets
>must be "sanitized."  Thus an application cannot use optimizations
>like "running status" nor can system exclusives be mixed with
>other data.
>
>This might be fine for new programs built from the ground up but is a
>pain for existing programs which must be converted.

I don't see why this is any problem (I converted my code quite
easily). Could you elaborate?

>Steven A. Falco   AT&T Bell Labs   (201) 386-4865   saf@floyd.att.com

		Nick.
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