debian man page for pdreceive

pdreceive(1)						      General Commands Manual						      pdreceive(1)

NAME
       pdreceive - receive messages from pd on this or a remote machine

SYNOPSIS
       pdreceive port-number [udp|tcp]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdreceive  opens a socket (with the specified port number) and waits for messages to arrive from one or more instances of pd(1).  Each mes-
       sage received is printed to the standard output with a trailing semicolon.  The protocol used is easy to implement and is called FUDI.

       The port number should agree with the port number of a "netsend" object within pd.  The protocol is "tcp" by default; this does a handshake
       to  guarantee  that  all messages arrive complete and in their correct order; if you are sending messages locally or point-to-point you can
       often get away with the faster udp protocol instead.

       You can also use this to get messages from a Max "pdnetsend" object or even just a "pdsend" in another shell.  If  you're  writing  another
       program you're welcome to just grab the sources for pdsend/pdreceive and adapt them to your own ends; they're part of the Pd distribution.

SEE ALSO
       pd(1), pdsend(1)

GNU
								    1996 Mar 20 						      pdreceive(1)