Could you use -v when running csound and see if what you set is what
csound got?  I wonder if there is a problem with the length of the
string.  With -v, you'll probably want to run it like:

csound -v myfile.csd | more

it should tell you what the SSDIR is set to.

steven

On 8/1/07, rasputin <tims45@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Well, something is awry here. I thought I had this working, but haven't been
> able to since....I have been trying to set SFDIR/SSDIR in .csd files or
> .csoundrc and I can't get them to work when using long paths like that
> below. That is, if I put in <CsOptions> something like
>
> --env:SSDIR=../catalog_samples
>
> that works, but not if I use something like
>
> --env:SSDIR="C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tims/My%20Documents/Personal/Studio%20stuff/Csound%20files%202.0GB/CD%203%20Csound%20Catalog/catalog_samples"
>
> It doesn't give an error; just fails to find the needed files (either trying
> to read by soundin, GEN01)
>
> I think this is an error and am going to enter it into sourceforge.
>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Steven. Escaping the spaces didn't seem to work.
> But I used CSound Editor to change every space to '%20' and lo and behold!
> that did work....so even though it make not look the most elegant the point
> is that now I can set SSDIRs and SFDIRs in my csds.
>
> My experiment was to use Spjut's FM_Example program, which requires a file
> Hamlet.aif which on my system is in "C:\Documents and Settings\music\My
> Documents\Personal\Studio stuff\Csound files 2.0GB\CD 3 Csound
> Catalog\catalog_samples"
>
> <CsoundSynthesizer>
> <CsOptions>
> --env:SFDIR="C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tims/My%20Documents/Personal/Studio%20stuff/Csound%20files%202.0GB/CD%203%20Csound%20Catalog/catalog_samples"
> </CsOptions>
> <CsInstruments>
>
>           instr     11 ;FM SCI-FI VOICE EXAMPLE
> a1        soundin   "Hamlet.aif"
> a3        line      0,p3,0.4            ; MODULATION INDEX
> a2        oscil     10000,256-a3*a1,1   ; MODULATE
>           out       a2
>           endin
>
>
> </CsInstruments>
> <CsScore>
> f1 0 4096 10 1 ;SINE TABLE
> ;-------------------------
> i11 0 22
>
> </CsScore>
> </CsoundSynthesizer>
>
>
> Steven Yi wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rasputin,
> >
> > Have you tried using \ before every space, so something like:
> >
> > --env:SSDIR="c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/me/My\ Documents..."
> >
> > Not sure that will work but could do it.
> >
> > steven
> >
> >
>
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