[PD] aconnect midi devices with identical client and port numbers

[Peter P.]

* IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> [2019-02-05 15:02]:
> On 05.02.19 13:57, Ingo wrote:
> >> are you using my [aconnect] external, or the `aconnect` cmdline utility?
> >> (the manpage of the latter says, that you can specify clients by name)
> > I didn't know about that external. Which library is it in?
> 
> it used to be a standalone "library" with a single [aconnect] object.
> i haven't looked at it in ages.
> 
> > So far I had been using shell for finding the client id and connecting it to 
> > Pd.
> > Maybe your external does a better job with my scenario. It's definitely worth 
> > giving it a try.

I was trying to get such a thing to work with pdreceive as asked on this
list a while ago
https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2019-01/124326.html
but did not find out how and did not get any replies (yet). Perhaps this
is a good occasion to ask again? ;)