As Steven said, you can set the environment variables in ~/.profile with lines like... export SFDIR=/some/path Or, if you want to avoid platform-specific solutions, you can set the variables in the tag in your .csd file... --env:NAME=VALUE See: http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/CommandEnvironment.html On 17/09/13 10:11 -0400, Michael Rhoades wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using Csound6 from command line on OSX 10.8.5. Can anyone tell me > how to set the environmental variables such that Csound knows where the > SFDIR, SSDIR etc are located? Either that or tell me the path to what > Csound considers to be the default? > > I have set the env variable for the app itself... In other words I can > invoke Csound from the command line by typing (for instance): > > csound -d -odac ~/Desktop/Csound/orc/diskin.orc > ~/Desktop/Csound/sco/diskin.sco > > But, when using Diskin2, unless I stipulate the full path for the sound > file in the orc Csound will not find it. > > Thanks in advance, > > Michael > > > > > Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug trackers > csound6: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/tickets/ > csound5: > https://sourceforge.net/p/csound/bugs/ > Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" > >