Because audio can come in from stdin and go out to stdout, enabling Csound and other Unix audio commands to be chained together with pipes. At least, that's the idea, I've never actually tried it.

There are lot of older audio programs for Unix that work this way.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Felipe Sateler 
>Sent: Jul 6, 2008 6:02 PM
>To: Developer discussions 
>Subject: [Cs-dev] Csound output
>
>Why does csound print everything to stderr instead of stdout? Trying to parse 
>csound output is painful this way (stderr needs to be redirected into stdout 
>first).
>
>Saludos,
>Felipe Sateler




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