Re: midi2ly won't load a file

[Mats Bengtsson]

I apologize if explanation below is trivial for you, I'm just
guessing what the real problem is.

The command window for LilyPond is not an ordinary Windows
command prompt, but a cygwin window. Cygwin is a kind of UNIX
operating system which uses other conventions for directory
pahts, for example. When you start the cygwin window, the working
directory is your cygwin "home" directory. Type the command 'pwd'
to find out the full path to the current directory. If it says
something like /home/robert/, this translates into the Windows
path C:\cygwin\home\robert\.
So, you could either move the file to that directory or you could
specify the full path to the windows directory. In the latter case,
make sure to use the correct syntax; a windows path like D:\mymap\
should be entered as /cygdrive/d/mymap/ in cygwin.

   /Mats

Robert Fleming wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> Midi2ly always gives the error "$ midi2ly mbd.mid
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/midi2ly", line 1113, in ?
>     convert_midi (f, o)
>   File "/usr/bin/midi2ly", line 961, in convert_midi
>     str = open (f).read ()
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> 'mbd.mid'".
> I tried typing in the entire path including drive
> letter.
> Also tried changing extension to ".midi". No luck.
> Running WinNT version on Win2K system. Keyboard is
> Yamaha PSR-290 w/ UX-16. Computer is old Packard-Bell
> 200Mhz.
>  
> Thanks,
> Bob Fleming
> address@hidden 
>
>
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