debian man page for pdsend

pdsend(1)						      General Commands Manual							 pdsend(1)

NAME
       pdsend - send messages to pd on this or a remote machine

SYNOPSIS
       pdsend port-number [hostname] [udp|tcp]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdsend  sends  messages	to pd(1), via a socket conection, from pdsend's standard input.  This input can be any stream of Pd messages sepa-
       rated by semicolons.  This is probably the easiest way to control pd from another application.  The protocol used is easy to implement  and
       is called FUDI.

       The  port number should agree with the port number of a "netreceive" object within pd.  The hostname is "localhost" by default and can be a
       domain name or an IP address.  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 talk to a Max "pdnetreceive" object or even just a "pdreceive" in another shell.  If you're writing another pro-
       gram 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), pdreceive(1)

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								    1996 Mar 20 							 pdsend(1)