10-30-2013
Note:
-a may happen to be supported for historical reasons, however, it is not part of POSIX so
-e should be used instead.
Quote:
An early proposal used the KornShell -a primary (with the same meaning), but this was changed to -e because there were concerns about the high probability of humans confusing the -a primary with the -a binary operator.
test: Rationale
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dssi_osc_send
dssi_osc_send(1) General Commands Manual dssi_osc_send(1)
NAME
dssi_osc_send - send OSC messages to DSSI applications.
SYNOPSIS
dssi_osc_send <option> <OSC URL> <values>
DESCRIPTION
dssi_osc_send sends DSSI OSC methods to DSSI applications. dssi_osc_send is typically used to control DSSI hosts (possibly for scripted
operation), or to test DSSI user interfaces.
OPTIONS
-c Send a `control' message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: control port and value. For example, to set
control port 1 to 0.1:
dssi_osc_send -c <OSC URL> 1 0.1
-p Send a `program' message. Requires two values to be supplied in the <values> section: bank and program number. For example, to
select bank 0 program number 7:
dssi_osc_send -p <OSC URL> 0 7
-m Send `midi' message. Requires four numbers to be supplied in the <values> section. For example, to send a note on, middle C,
velocity 64:
dssi_osc_send -m <OSC URL> 0 144 60 64
-C Send a `configure' message. The <values> are the key and value pair. For example, to send key `load' and value `/tmp/patches.pat':
dssi_osc_send -C <OSC URL> load /tmp/patches.pat
-s Send a `show' message.
dssi_osc_send -s <OSC URL>
-h Send a `hide' message.
dssi_osc_send -h <OSC URL>
-q Send a `quit' message.
dssi_osc_send -q <OSC URL>
-e Send a `exiting' message.
dssi_osc_send -e <OSC URL>
<OSC URL>
The URL to connect to. For example:
osc.udp://localhost:19383/dssi/test.1
osc.udp://my.host.org:10886/dssi/xsynth-dssi/Xsynth/chan00
SEE ALSO
dssi_osc_update(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was originally created by Mark Hymers from the help text of the application, for the Debian project (but may be freely
used by others).
January 5th, 2009 dssi_osc_send(1)