BURP.DOC Bored with Useless Ripping Programs (c) 1995,1996 Jari Karppinen General info This program is FREEWARE. Spread it, don't sell it. These files should be included in Burp archive: BURP.EXE the executable BURP.DOC documentation FILE_ID.DIZ description in zip GRAB.EXE grab utility MODLIST.EXE module list generator utility Any other files are probably some BBS advertisements, delete them. What does Burp do? Burp is one of the many programs trying to seek and extract music from different sources. My goal was to make this program as fast and convenient to use as possible. There's a detailed list of all supported formats later in this document. Burp is quite a spartan utility, because I thought that everything else except the main function is unnecessary. Burp command line Syntax: BURP filename [filename2] [filename3...] You can use wildcards, and up to 16 separate filename arguments. You can also put paths in arguments, for example, if you type "BURP C:\DEMOS\*.EXE" and Burp will scan all EXEs in C:\DEMOS. Furthermore, typing "BURP C:*.*" results Burp to scan all the files located in the current directory of drive C. Due to stupid programming the limit for the number of entries is 512. If you have more than 512 files in a directory, and you want to scan them all, you'll have to use filters more detailed than just "*.*". Remarks about using Burp You can quit the Burp session by pressing ESC or Control-Break. I prefer hitting ESC. Burp may ask you to estimate the size of the found module, if it can't determine it by itself (look at supported formats list). It shows the maximum size (which is usually the best guess to make). To cut off the useless data from the extracted module, you should load it to a tracker with which it was created with and then save it again. You know the trick. You should also know the drill about unpacking files before you use Burp. UNP, CUP or any other alike programs will do. Because some formats are hard to verify, Burp might sometimes yell about false modules. But these cases are easy to spot, so don't delete Burp yet :) Burpdir environment variable If you want to have your ripped modules always saved in a specific directory, you can set a variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. For example, if you have all your modules in C:\MODS, just add SET BURPDIR=C:\MODS in your AUTOEXEC. If this is not set, the modules will be saved in the current directory. Of course you can a give full path with name when Burp asks for a filename. MODLIST & GRAB utilities Modlist is a small utility called Module List Generator. It makes a sorted list of modules. It's not quite sophisticated and I don't know if it's any good for you, but use it if you like it. My own production of course. You can get help for Modlist by typing MODLIST ? at the command prompt. However, this program may be handy for module swappers, or for those who have lots of modules in several subdirectories, and who want to catalog them. Grab is a very simple utility to extract certain amount of data from files. Just run the program without parameters and you'll see how it is used. About the programmer and other related things Here's the snail mail address: Jari Karppinen Vaskitie 10 B 12 90250 Oulu Finland Preferably use this e-mail address: jakarppi@raita.oulu.fi Information on supported formats Here's a list of the completely supported formats. Ŀ Format Description Ĵ 669 Unis699 Extended 669 module or Composer 669 module. Both are saved as .669, but if Burp finds a extended 669, it will be prompted as a E669 module. AMD $$$'s Adlib Tracker (AMusic) v1.1 module format. Burp recognises both packed and non-packed modules. The packed format is not completely supported yet, though. AMS Extreme's Tracker module format v1.3 / Velvet Studio Advanced Module System format v2.2. DMF Delusions's X-Tracker module. DTM DigiTrekker 3.0 Module. FMC Faust Music Creator (Adlib tracker) song. Actually the FMC format files have extension SNG. FNK FunkTracker module. IT Impulse Tracker module. MDL n-Factor's DigiTrakker module. MED OctaMed Module. If Burp finds a MED module it will prompt it as a MMD0 or MMD1 module, but saves it as .MED, though. Quite rare format on PC, I guess. You can play these with MikMod, if you don't have an Amiga. MOD Pro/FastTracker module (Burp supports all variations known to me, 2..32 channels, 1..100 patterns). MTM MultiTracker module. MTR Arkham's Master Tracker module. PAC SBStudio II package (package is a song that contains also the samples, in other words, a module). PTM PolyTracker module. PSM ProTracker Studio Module format. RAD Reality's Adlib Tracker module. S3M Scream Tracker 3.x module. SA2 Surprise! Adlib Tracker v2.00 module. STM Scream Tracker 2.x module. XM FastTracker 2 extended module. And here are the formats only detected by their ID-strings. If you find any of these, you'll have to estimate the sizes by yourself. Basically this means you'll enter the shown maximum when Burp asks you to estimate the size. So don't worry about it. Ŀ Format Description Ĵ DSM Dynamic Studio Module format. FAR Farandole Composer module. PLM Psychic Link's Disorder Tracker 2.00 module. ULT UltraTracker module. Burp version information v2.21 + complete support for AMS format