[PD] more Pd/shell communication

[Peter Plessas]

Flo,

i am sure you have tried this, and others have suggested it too, but 
there is always the [shell] external in externals/ggee i think.

mfg,adsr
Peter

Florian Hollerweger wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am a happy user of Chris McCormick's recent suggestion for Pd/shell 
> communication using [netsend], [netreceive] and a shell script piping 
> commands from/to pdreceive/pdsend in a while loop (based on a solution 
> by Claude):
> 
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2009-02/067864.html
> 
> However, this ceases to work when the Pd patch is restarted, since the 
> ports remain occupied. While one can close the link from Pd to the 
> script before restarting the patch using the [disconnect< message to 
> [netsend], there seems to be no clean way of closing the connection from 
> the script to Pd.
> 
> I am guessing that one would need to modify Chris' script in a way that 
> it is possible to send a 'disconnect' event from Pd to the script, which 
> causes it to close the pipe to Pd, right?
> 
> Not being the world's greatest shell scripter, I would appreciate any 
> hints on how this could be accomplished.
> 
> best,
> flo.H
> 
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