Are you using the GUI? It might be trying to write to the
root directory. Try giving it the full path to where you
want it: eg. "/users/yourname/yourdirectory".

Victor

>
> Hi,
> Do I need to set an environment variable to save to text
> file using ftsave?   This vers. keeps complaining it can't
> open the file: INIT ERROR in instr 1: ftsave: unable to
> open file
>
> 
> 
> csound -s -d  -odac -b4096 -B4096
> 
> 
>
> sr    =    44100
> kr    =    4410
> ksmps    =    10
> nchnls    =    1
>
> itmp  ftgen 3, 0, 1025, -7, 200, 1024, 2000
>
>           instr      1
> ftsave "Gen7Test.save", 1, 3
>           endin
>
> 
> 
> i 1 0 5
> e
> 
> 
>
>
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