tdunstan@ihug.com.au wrote:
just been reading a few docs on pd and a couple of times it has been
mentioned
to "put it in your .pdrc file". i'm kinda, sort of, new to linux but
i assume
its some sort of launching device. could someone please explain to me
how i use
it and perhaps an example. thanks tom
Under linux files with names starting with '.' are 'invisible', in that they don't show up when you do 'ls'. If you do 'ls -a' then you will see them. Usually these files are used to store user preferences for various programs. The file '.bashrc' contains things that control how your shell behaves when you open a terminal window. '.pdrc' can contain things like the path that pd searches for libraries. From a search for 'pdrc' in files in my pd-0.37-0/src/, in the function int sys_rcfile(void) in the file s_path.c, it loads the file pdrc into a buffer and then calls the function int sys_argparse(int argc, char **argv) in the file s_main.c, which is the same function that parses a command line. So basically it just reads '.pdrc' as though it was a command line, but you can probably put the parameters on separate lines for legibility and ease of editing. You can type pd --help for a list of available parameters.
Martin