Thanks Leenia!!

Splitting large ABC files to one file per tune.

I got ABCMUS going with the the help of MikeM. ABCMUS has the capability of splitting files. under the 'file' tab there's an option for 'make lists'. Clicking on that opens up another window and under the 'list type' tab you select 'split'. It then diveds your abc file so the it creates on file per tune. Whoever you need to tweak a file first.
In the following folder
C:\Program Files\ABCMus2\listcfg , you must open the split.cfg file with notepad or a similar program.
Change the line
- outFile "%p\\%f%04x.abc";

so that it reads
- outFile "c:\%T.abc";

This will create a file for each tune with the name tune as the name of the new file. As Mike said, the process will crash if you have more than one title for a tune.

Having taken care of this I'm going to concentrate on the last two steps. converting to xml and then to mus.
I'm going to try your advice Mick and geoff and I'll get back to you tomorrow and let you know how things are going. Thanks for all the help so far. It has defitniely saved me a lot of time...or it will. :)

Thanks.