I repeat, the changes are in git. Your version is old but you can
survive with your sym-link.

> Suggestion: But /dev/stdin isn't necessarily portable across OS's;
>   make_csdfile_script | csound -
> might perhaps be neater, more standard, more portable ?

I know it but there is `-i stdin' and it means other. With a new `-', we have

  csound -i stdin somefile [scofile]

  csound -L stdin somefile [scofile]

  csound - [scofile]

Confuse and it generates discussions about plus and minus.
The alternative is

  csound stdin [scofile]

but

  csound /dev/stdin [scofile]

is simplest because I only remove a check for the csd extension.
Besides, /dev/stdin works on linux, bsd, solaris, osx, etc, so
perhaps it is a problem only on windows. Try

  csound -i stdin blabla

on windows and see the output.

--orc is useful in rt to avoid the tags and the score file because
we can use only an orcfile.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:07:48PM +1000, pj@pjb.com.au wrote:
> Tito wrote:
> > make_csdfile_script | csound /dev/stdin
> 
> That's the one that doesn't work for me because /dev/stdin
> doesn't have a .csd extension; hence my ln -s workaround:
> > ln -s /dev/stdin /tmp/stdin.csd
> > make_csdfile_script | csound /tmp/stdin.csd
> 
> I'm on debian stable:
>   Csound version 5.12 (double samples) Aug  5 2010
>   libsndfile-1.0.17
> 
> OK, I've got lots of resources now for reading from stdin :-)
> 
> Suggestion: But /dev/stdin isn't necessarily portable across OS's;
>   make_csdfile_script | csound -
> might perhaps be neater, more standard, more portable ?
> 
> Anyway, back to my new soundfont-synth with no latency :-)
> 
> Peter Billam