roardecnet(7)

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💖 roardecnet — bestie's guide to DECnet + RoarAudio 💖

okay so this is roardecnet(7), straight out of the System Manager's Manual: RoarAudio section of the manual. it's the lil hint sheet for anyone tryna run RoarAudio over DECnet. no cap, it's short but it's useful, so let's go 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

roard -n [OPTIONS...] ...

roarclient --server node:: [OPTIONS...] ...

like. that's the whole vibe. daemon on one side, client on the other, node:: doing the heavy lifting 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

this page is just a lil collection of hints for using RoarAudio over DECnet. that's it, that's the description. short queen energy 👑

🦋 BASICS 🦋

so! if DECnet support is compiled in, then roard(1) has this option called -n. set it and the daemon will literally listen via DECnet. iconic.

you can also use -b to set the object name. but heads up bestie — nodenames given via -b are ignored. like, they just get dropped. don't fight it 🙈

examples, fr fr:

roard -n
roard -n -b ::myobject

and if you're on the default object, local clients should just... find their way to the server? like they know the address, it's giving muscle memory. but for remote clients, or if you're on a non-default object, you gotta give a server address in one of the forms listed below. no skipping this step, periodt.

👑 SERVER ADDRESS 👑

the server address for DECnet comes in one of these forms:

  • node::
  • node::object
  • ::object
  • ::

that's literally how you specify a DECnet connection to node node's object object. and here's the cute part — both may be omitted to use the defaults 🎀

the default node name is the local host's node name. iykyk.

examples time, slay:

mynode::               connect to mynode
::roar                 connect to local object roar
yournode::yourroard    connect to yournode's object yourroard
::                     connect to default object on local node

look at those. four lil baddies. mynode:: walks up to mynode, ::roar hits the local roar object, yournode::yourroard goes all the way to yournode's yourroard, and bare :: just takes you to the default object on the local node. chef's kiss 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one came from the RoarAudio fam, dated November 2010 — old school but still eating, honestly. go forth and connect 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

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