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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+ <title>MusE: Linux Music Editor</title>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
+</head>
+
+<body>
+<center><h1>MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor</h1></center>
+
+<h2>3. Invoking MusE</h2>
+<p>
+<h2>3.1 Invoking MusE</h2>
+MusE is invoked from the command line by typing in:
+<pre>
+ <tt>muse</tt>
+</pre>
+
+Optionally, you can use command line options of the form:
+
+<pre>
+ muse &lt;options&gt; &lt;midifile&gt;
+</pre>
+
+&lt;options&gt; : see section 3.2 below for details on options.
+&lt;midifile&gt; can be either a standard MIDI file or a MusE
+file (*.med, *.med.gz or *.med.bz2).
+
+<h2>3.2 Command Line Options</h2>
+<p>
+MusE accepts some options as listed below:
+<pre>
+ -v print version
+ -d debug mode: no threads
+ -D debug mode: enable some debug messages
+ -m debug mode: trace midi Input
+ -M debug mode: trace midi Output
+ -s debug mode: trace sync
+ -R enable real time scheduling
+</pre>
+
+<h2>3.3 File Types Recognized by MusE</h2>
+<p>
+<table border=1 cellpadding=5>
+<tr><td><tt>~/.MusE<td>MusE Configuration File ("~" refers to your home directory)
+<tr><td><tt>.musePrj<td>Hidden Project File; stores list of last projects
+<tr><td><tt>*.med<td>MusE song file; internal MusE format
+<tr><td><tt>*.mid<td>midi file; can be imported
+<tr><td><tt>*.kar<td>karaoke: midi file with additional information; some types can be imported
+</table>
+<p>
+With adding the additional extensions <tt>.gz</tt> or <tt>.bz2</tt>
+you can read or write compressed files.
+
+</qt>