Hi Jeanette,
Thanks for the info... I'm not clear how you access the web without a browser
-- I assumed you had one with verbal output or something.

(For others) I have been exploring the IDE page a bit more, and managed to make
some sense of it.  I found more of what the various gadgets do. In particular
there is a 'Start' triangle icon at top right which displays "run project.csd"
when you hover over it, and when you click it it appears to do so and generates
a "piano.mp3" file.  However the file is always only 44 bytes long!

The zip package I did actually download earlier does run "out of the box" and
generates a nice 12-second piano.mp3 file.  It's nowhere near realtime though.
Can't make it feed anything sensible to dac.

Meanwhile... I've been having the usual adventures that seem to happen to me
when I'm just about to head for bed!  The "menu bar" that was on the IDE page
has simply vanished!  I've found no way to bring it back!!  Instead there is
a faint square gadget at top left that brings up the menu (vertically instead of
horizontally) with the wame choices.  Gaahh!  Then -- something that has never
happened before! -- Firefox suddenly announced thqt it was doing the "requested
updates" (I hadn't!); the progress bar eventualy finished, but... no firefox!!
I eventaully found a very incomplete directory in /usr/lib, so I had to run
a manual install!  There was no longer the usual firefox launch button at the
bottom of the screen, but it only took me about 15 minutes to get that back (:-/).
Aren't computers such time savers...? (:-))

So... at 1:30 am. I *am* now heading for bed!

	-- Pete --


On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 09:55:43AM +0200, Jeanette C. wrote:
> Hi Pete,
> neither website would do anything for me, since I work exclusively on the
> Linux commandline. It would be a question of accessibility anyway.
> 
> As for mega.nz on Linux there is a package called megacmd, which includes
> one program called mega-get:
> mega-get <url>
> Works like a treat! Just in case you ever come across it again.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Jeanette
> 
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