Bruce O.Thank you for offering support and information. This may not be appropriate to pursue in a thread, but since it's entitled music theory, I'll test the waters. (This IS techno music theory...)
You lost me when you said to make sure the file is all ASCII, between X:N, and end of tune. How would I do this? I found the X: at the very beginning of the "narrative" explanation of the tune as written in ABC, what is the :N part?
Rosebrook