I wasn't that familiar with UDP, so I  assumed that packet size  was limited
to something fairly small, but I've now done a little research and see that
the maximum is ~65k.  ...As long as fragmentation is not a concern.

With communication within localhost, it looks as if there's no fragmentation,
so you're right -- 65k is not likely to be restrictive.   Not so sure about sending
across the net.  I gather from StackOverflow that some routers might just
reject a long message without trying to fragment it.  Don't know.

Maybe some bracketing convention would be nice in any case.  Would make
it easier to use things like netcat to send a score as a group but line-by-line
from the console.

Thanks,

	-- Pete --

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 09:32:56AM +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> It might be possible to add a multi-packet score command like the orchestra with { }, I can look into it.
> Never thought of scores as being that big. A work-around is to use readscore or linevent and send it
> as a multi-message orchestra.
> ========================
> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
> 
> > On 20 Sep 2019, at 22:53, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@computer.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Ahh.  The problem was, I've been using netcat to send the strings.
> > If I'm typing the lines in from the console, nc sends each as a
> > separate UDP packet.
> > 
> > If instead I send a longer score string -- prepended by '$' -- via
> > a pipe, it all gets played. e.g.:
> > 
> >    cat testorc| nc -u localhost 10000
> > 
> > I guess it's still limited by the maximum size of a packet.
> > 
> > 	-- Pete --
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 01:35:49PM -0700, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 01:19:13PM +0300, Tarmo Johannes wrote:
> >>> How do you form the string? I believe if it is somethin like "i 1 0 3 \n i1
> >>> 4 5" it should work. Or does not it? Cannot check right now...
> >> 
> >> I'm afraid that sort of construction doesn't work.  (Tried all that sort
> >> of thing last night.)  I don't know if you intended the quotes to be
> >> part of the entry, but they'll be flagged as 'unexpected STRING_TOKEN
> >> (token """)'.  Including a '\n', (with no quotes) is also flagged as illegal.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the suggestion, anyway.
> >> 
> >> 	-- Pete --
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> tarmo
> >>> 
> >>> R, 20. september 2019 09:28 Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@computer.org>
> >>> kirjutas:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> I've been playing with the UDP Server (having got it working in Haiku...)
> >>>> but I can't figure out the "$" command.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The manual says:
> >>>> 
> >>>> "   $[score]
> >>>> Sends in a score [score], to which most preprocessing (except for tempo)
> >>>> can be applied. Use this option for larger blocks of score events."
> >>>> 
> >>>> which would seem to mean that you can send a score's worth of events,
> >>>> but I can't find a way of sending more than one line.  It will play one
> >>>> line,
> >>>> but succeeding ones cause a parse error.  There doesn't seem to be
> >>>> any equivalent of the "{...}" convention for Orchestra.
> >>>> 
> >>>> What am I missing?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>        -- Pete --
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