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   <title>MusE: Linux Music Editor</title>
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<center><h1>MusE - The Linux (Midi) Music Editor</h1></center>

<h2>3. Invoking MusE</h2>
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<h2>3.1 Invoking MusE</h2>
MusE is invoked from the command line by typing in:
<pre>
	<tt>muse</tt>
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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>
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MusE accepts some options as listed below:
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   -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
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<h2>3.3 File Types Recognized by MusE</h2>
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<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
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With adding the additional extensions <tt>.gz</tt> or <tt>.bz2</tt>
you can read or write compressed files.

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