If I omit the -o as well it results in csound playing back the 
instrument through the default audio output device. Great.

Rory.

Art Hunkins wrote:
> (I'll bet it means to omit the -o as well.)
> 
> Art Hunkins
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rory Walsh" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 10:15 AM
> Subject: [Csnd] -o flag...
> 
> 
>> I thought if I did this
>>
>> csound test.csd -o
>>
>> it would write a file called 'test' to the disk, when I run the above I 
>> get a 'no outfile name' error. That's fine but in the manual it suggests
>>
>> "If no name is given, the default name will be test."
>>
>> This is with Csound5 by the way. Personally I prefer that one has to 
>> specify a name, is that the way it is now?
>>
>> Rory.
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No that's fine, is this the default option that comes with the installer?

Istvan Varga wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 16:23, Rory Walsh wrote:
> 
>> If I omit the -o as well it results in csound playing back the 
>> instrument through the default audio output device. Great.
> 
> This is because there is already an -o dac in .csoundrc.
> You can remove that if you prefer writing a sound file named
> 'test'.

(I'll bet it means to omit the -o as well.)

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rory Walsh" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 10:15 AM
Subject: [Csnd] -o flag...


> I thought if I did this
> 
> csound test.csd -o
> 
> it would write a file called 'test' to the disk, when I run the above I 
> get a 'no outfile name' error. That's fine but in the manual it suggests
> 
> "If no name is given, the default name will be test."
> 
> This is with Csound5 by the way. Personally I prefer that one has to 
> specify a name, is that the way it is now?
> 
> Rory.
> -- 
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk