Re: csound in OSX...

Hi Simone,

It's not necessary to run bash.  However, most people who use Linux use 
bash so if I'd guess there's more information on bash than on tcsh.  I 
also happen to find tcsh confusing as I'm used to bash.  =)

To run csound it won't really matter which shell you use, as they will 
all allow you to execute csound.  The part where the different shells 
might affect you is that the way they set variables is different; some use:

set PATH = $PATH:/some/other/dir

others use:

setenv PATH $PATH:/some/other/dir

tcsh uses two different ways to set variables; I can't remember the 
reason (one if the variable is all uppercase and considered a system 
variable and one if it is a script variable I think). 

I think really the only things that will affect you in terms of using 
csound with either shell will be to set the path and csound variables 
(SADIR, SFDIR, INCDIR, and SSDIR), which you might not even use (I like 
using them however =)).

So... it's your choice!  If it's of any concern, I've been using only 
commandline csound for a long time and I rarely ever spend time editing 
shell scripts (.cshrc or .bashrc), pretty much only have to do it once. 

Glad the other email helped!
steven

Simone Ghetti wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Thanks so much...that is exactly what I needed...  I did find a few 
> tutorials on using the terminal.app in osX...  one tutorial 
> recommended changing the default shell from tcsh to bash... is this 
> necessary?  just curious to know if it affects working with csound at 
> all...
>
> again thank you...
>

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