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 connection, from pdsend's standard input.
       This input can be any stream of Pd messages separated 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 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), pdreceive(1)