Bernd Eggink wrote:

> I just started with the Linux version of Csound and have two questions.

Before going further, may I suggest you download the latest version
(3.46) from

	ftp://mustec.bgsu.edu/pub/linux

where I have it in both binary (csound-3.46.gz) and corrected source
tree (csound-3.46.Linux.tar.gz, if you want to compile it for yourself).
Please note that if you do want to compile it you will need to alter the
line specifying the location of your X libs.

> First, is it possible to get output in .au format? Then I could just
> 'cat' the
> output file on /dev/audio. Or is this a property of the OSS driver?

Use the -m (for mu-law) command-line switch, that should do it.

> Second, I got the impression that csound-3.44.linux is less stable than
> Csound95...

Your calls to expseg were causing the problem: 3.44 needed a fix before
those calls would compile properly. The newest version is stable.

== Dave Phillips

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