Just to be clear: we're talking about opening a patch file that does not have the .pd extension, e.g. "mypatch.txt" or simply "mypatch". This certainly works (at least here on Windows.)

On 09.06.2020 17:27, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 2020-06-09 15:55, Christof Ressi wrote:
Does Pd open a patch that doesn't have the .pd extension?
Yes.
not here.

```
$ ls -l
mypatch.pd
$ pd -stderr -verbose mypatch.pd
[...]
tried .../mypatch.pd and succeeded
^C
Pd: signal 2
$ pd -stderr -verbose mypatch
[...]
tried .../mypatch and failed
[...]
error: mypatch: can't open
$
```


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