Greetings, ChucK is awesome! I only discovered it slightly a week ago, and I'm a total convert now. I can write programs much more elegantly in chuck than I ever could in pd, and it is _such_ a pleasure to do everything in text. Dev team: you guys rock! I'm working on a chuck->lilypond[1] translator (well, a chuck program that generates lilypond code, gets lilypond to compile it, and then displays the sheet music). I was talking about this with Adam Tindale[2], and he said that ChucK could do system calls. In the source code for chuck, I saw a reference to "std.ck", which is supposed to demonstrate this, but evidently this example file was removed before 1.2 came out. Could anybody shed more light on this? [1] GNU/LilyPond is a notation program that generates beautiful music from (text) input files; I'm their Documentation Editor. http://lilypond.org [2] I'm a music undergraduate student at UVic; Adam is the TA for one of my courses. Ideally I'd like to be able to output strings to a file and run shell commands (ie "lilypond foo.ly" and "open foo.pdf" -- maybe also "ls foo.pdf" to check if lilypond has finished). I could do this in pd via the textedit and "shell" external object, but I'd much much rather use chuck. :) Cheers, - Graham Percival