Hi Istvan, Thanks very much for looking into this! I'm sure this is not a usual scenario for many people as the username on the computer I was using happens to have a dot in it. Thanks again for spending time on this! steven On 1/11/06, Istvan Varga wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 00:15, Steven Yi wrote: > > > That seems to be on the right track. I get an endless output of: > > > > Temporary file name: C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1.SFE/LOCALS~1/Temp\cs438 > ^ > > Now I found out what the problem is. Note the dot in the path name: > currently, there is code that removes anything past the last dot in > the file name, before appending an extension like orc, sco, etc. > So, the temporary orchestra file name is a constant > "C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1.orc". > > This existed for a long time, however, a change was made recently > to check if the temporary file already exists, and if yes, then a > new name is tried. Needless to say, with the above constant name, > this results in the endless loop of trying new names you reported. > > I will fix this soon; unfortunately, a new RC2 release has just been > made, and it still has the bug. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Csound-devel mailing list > Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/csound-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Csound-devel mailing list Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net