Thanks Mick!

Between my post and reading yours, I had got as far as navigating the command line (Windows) through to where I had put the programme. I had copied a couple of ABC files into the same location and run the prog followed by ABC filename. It had printed an xml output in the shell, but nowhere else.
After reading your posting, I added the triangular bracket plus a filename and it did save an XML file into the same directory.
I have now tested with an ABC which has a w: words line, so it is presumably an early version of the programme (It will not tell me the date, because it has dated the file to the time I extracted from the archive.

If I PM you an e-mail address, is there any chance you could find and send a version that does lyrics as well as dots? At present I do have bot Windows and SUSE Linux on the PC, so can handle either version of the programme.

Quack!
Geoff.