[PD] remembering the search paths...?

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
chun lee hat gesagt: // chun lee wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 23:20, CK wrote:
> > I read:
> > > > 1. use ~/.pdrc  (no idea if this works on windos)
> > > 
> > > my Pd is on Fedora Linux and i am pretty new to it. i don't quite
> > > understand this. i can't seems to locate this file/binary/script.
> > 
> > it's not there by defaultm it's a file in
> > /home/username_who_runs_pd/
> > (where cd at the shell prompt takes you)
> > it's a textfile you have to put there and basically 
> > you can put pd command line options in there you
> > want to have run everytime
> ok, i understand this bit now. 

The tilde "~" is just a shortcut for your HOME directory, wherever
that is. It normally is /home/your_username but that doesn't have to
be so. That's why people just call it "~". You can use that shortcut
on the command line and in many applications, for example in Pd's
"Open file" dialog. Just type "~" into the "File name" fiels, press
ENTER and you're home.

> not quite understand the syntax of the script below:( i got a fedora
> book and in it there is a format of 
> 
> [sonicvariable at localhost sonicvariable]$ cat .pdrc
> .
> .
> .
> [sonicvariable at localhost sonicvariable]
> 
> would this also work?

Now I don't understand this. "cat" just prints the contents of a file
to your shell. "cat" can be abused as text editor, but normally you'd
use a real text editor for it. 

> i have tried making a script this way but keeps the rest of the script
> the same as you have below apart from the actual file paths. but i got
> 'permission denied '? 

You don't need a script. Just do a "editor ~/-pdrc" with "editor" some
text editor (many distributions, e.g. Debian provide an editor as
"editor" program. 

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__