Re: Csound, PureData, and pipes.

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 01:10:02AM +0000, iain duncan wrote:
> Chris McCormick wrote:
> >What about [shell]
> 
> If you don't mind filling in a PD ignoramus, what does [shell] do?

The shell external allows you to run shell commands from within pd and
print the output to the pd console. For example:

[ls(
|
[shell]
|
[print]

or

[csound(
|
[shell]
|
[print]

Infact, if you just want to connect csound to pd via pipes, can't you
just pipe the output of pd -> csound and use pd's [print] to output from
pd? Am I missing something?

You could even run the two processes separately and create a fifo with one
reading (csound) from it and one writing (pd). That way if something
fscks up you can just restart either process.

Good luck!

Regards,

Csoundignoramus.
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