pdreceive(1)

💖 pdreceive — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to pdreceive(1), a general commands manual page 🎀 she's a little old-school but she's iconic, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

pdreceive — receive messages from pd on this machine or a remote one 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pdreceive port-number [udp|tcp]

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So here's the tea 🍓: Pdreceive opens a socket (with the port number you give it) and just... waits 💅. Waits for messages to arrive from one or more instances of pd(1). Patient queen behavior, honestly.

Every single message that shows up gets printed to standard output with a trailing semicolon. Periodt. And the protocol it speaks is super easy to implement — it's called FUDI 🧚 (iykyk).

⚠️ real talk: the port number you pass should agree with the port number of a "netsend" object inside pd. otherwise they're just two girlies not texting back 😭

The protocol is tcp by default, and that's the main character for a reason — it does a handshake 🤝 to guarantee that all messages arrive complete and in their correct order. If you're sending messages locally or point-to-point though, you can often get away with the faster udp protocol instead. slay, lowkey efficient 🔥

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

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• pd(1)
• pdsend(1)

GNU 🌈 1996 Mar 20 — yeah she's been around since the nineties and she's still serving, we love a vintage icon 💖 bye bestie, go receive some messages 🫶✨