Thank you much for your response: I put english.txt in my SET
SADIR=C:\Csound\Analysis, but it still didn't work, after that I also put
into that directory csound.txt, and there was again joy at the command line.
Do you find that you only need english.txt?


----- Original Message -----
From: Job M. van Zuijlen 
To: Jim Smitherman 
Cc: Csound List 
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: 'engish' txt for csound dos


> If you put english.txt in one of your predefined directories (SADIR,
> SFDIR, or SSDIR), csound will work in any directory you want, it does
> for me.
>
> Job van Zuijlen
>
> Jim Smitherman wrote:
> >
> > I understand that the newest csound wants english.tx (or whatever)
> > available, I have it in my csound bin dir, and it seems to me all my
other
> > environment vars are set correctly, yet I cannot use dos csound in any
> > directory other than it's home directory, since it 'can't find db'
whenever
> > I invoke it (though, csound finds itself).  must I copy this
database.txt to
> > each dir i wish to run on the dos level for? Surely not.  What am I
missing,
> > please?  I do my best to read the docs, but there are so many of them.
I'm
> > working at it, though.
> >
> > thanks, Jim