Well, Dick, you didn't actually answer my question, which was about POSTING tunes and how we should flag new tunes so you can find them easily. Do you want a new thread just for the tune, of one thread for all added tunes, or is ADD TUNE in the "subject" box good enough, or what do you need ot be best able to find the tunes (and lyrics) we post?

Here's how to make use of the MIDITXT files you find in the forum. I won't go into how to do this in DOS, because I assume even Dick (grin) has graduated to some version of Windows.

Notepad or simple text works best for downloading a MIDITXT file - you highlight the red numbers andd copy them [CTRL-C].

Then you paste the red stuff [CTRL-V] into Notepad or other text editor, and save it as a text file. I just use the same file over and over again, songtext.txt.

Then you drag the icon for your text file onto the icon for TXT2MID, and the program should produce a MIDI file.

You can tweak MID2TXT AND TXT2MID to work better in Windows 95 by right-clicking on the icon for each and choosing "properties" and setting the properties the way you want - I'd especially recommend keeping your songtext and MIDI files in a separate subdirectory, under the directory (folder) where you have all that MIDITXT stuff Alan made for us. You open that folder, drag songtext onto TXT2MID, and your reconstituted MIDI will appear. I can make a MIDI out of that red gobbledy-gook in less than a minute.
I suppose that all this verbiage may just have confused things more. Computer operations are very difficult to teach - the best and easiest way to learn is to jump in there and fool around with it yourself. Do take a look at the instruction Alan has prepared on the download page - he's a computer professor (and a very literate one, too), so he knows his stuff and explains it well.
About a year ago, my employer sent me an expensive-looking set of six training tapes for Office 97. I watched the Word tape and actually learned one thing I hadn't figured out for myself. I haven't made it all the way through the Access tape, and I haven't learned much there, either. Don't know if I'll ever watch the other four. Too boring, and I've already figured out most of it myself by just fooling around. Haven't broken a computer yet.
-Joe Offer-