Thanks Andreas. I downloadi and built it. Not too difficult. When I run it the program fails asking me for a FIFO? [mark@Godzilla dispmidi]$ ./dispmidi Usage: ./dispmidi <input fifo> Purpose: diplays MIDI messages from the input fifo [mark@Godzilla dispmidi]$ Any idea what the input FIFO might be? Thanks, Mark On 31 Dec 2004 19:23:34 +0100, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Is there any simple console-type app that will capture MIDI events > > to a text file for viewing later? > > Maybe dispmidi can be used: > http://www.sreal.com:8000/~div/midi-utilities-for-unix/ > > I have not tried it myself. > > Cheers, > Andreas > >