MFTEXT(1)

💖 MFTEXT(1) — the girlies' guide to dumping MIDI as text 💖

okay so bestie, this one's from the General Commands Manual, and it's called mftext. it's short, it's sweet, it's iconic, and it does exactly one thing. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mftext — dump a MIDI file as text

like. literally that's it. it dumps. it's text. slay 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mftext file

one command, one argument, zero drama. we love a low-maintenance queen 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: mftext gives you a verbose description of what's actually inside a MIDI file. like, it opens up the file and tells you everything it's got going on. very "tell me your secrets" energy 🔥

and when would you even want that? bestie, great question. you might wanna use it to check the output from abc2midi — like, you ran abc2midi, you got a MIDI file, and now you're squinting at it like "…okay but what's in there tho?" 💀 mftext is your answer. it spills the tea on your MIDI file's contents. no cap.

also fun fact for the lore girlies: this lil tool is part of the original midifilelib distribution, which you can grab from:

http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/midifilelib.tar.gz

an OG. a founding mother. we stan a legacy icon 👑

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• abcmtex(1)
• abc2abc(1)
• abc2midi(1)
• midi2abc(1)

the whole girl gang fr fr 🌈

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. giving credit where credit is due, always 🫶✨

heads up bestie: this page lives in the General Commands Manual, and the footer just says MFTEXT(1) — no extra version number, no date, nothing spicy. just the classic. that's the whole thing, periodt 💅

stay hydrated, read your man pages, and go dump a MIDI file bestie 💖🌸🦋