ok, earlier i posted a csd that crashed under consound but not under
gabriels directcsound.  i thought it might at first be related to some
orc commands that csound wasnt liking.  well, the problem is stranger
than that:
consound crashes when the input csd filename is six letters.  it works
fine for seven letters and five letters.  so my file before was named
'matrix.csd' it crashed.
any other six letters with '.csd' appended crashes too.
hfkgie.csd crashes
sjtufh.csd crashes
etcetc.csd crashes
etc, etc, etc.

direct csound doesnt suffer from this problem.

so people try this out: rename any working csd file to random six
letters and '.csd', such ashsot.csd and see if it crashes.
i am thinking this has something to do with the canonical version, but
all i can test it with is consound.

next question:  why does it crash with six letters?