.TH pdreceive 1 "1996 Mar 20" GNU
.SH NAME
pdreceive \- receive messages from pd on this or a remote machine
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pdreceive
\fIport-number\fR [udp|tcp]
.SH 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
message received is printed to the standard output with a trailing semicolon. 
The protocol used is easy to implement and is called FUDI.
.PP
The \fIport number\fR 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.
.PP
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.
.SH SEE ALSO
pd(1), pdsend(1)