You should be able to run them from the command line. When you say that you are "opening the files", do you mean you're clicking on them in the Finder? As you've said, that will just open up a terminal window.
Also, these commands just communicate with strings over a TCP socket. If you're comfortable with socket programming in Ruby then you don't even have to use pdsend and pdreceive.
andy
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Faraday jbturgid@hotmail.com wrote:
Hey All I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal. The main trouble I'm having now is that I'm mostly using a Mac OS X machine which doesn't recognize the 'pdsend' and 'pdreceive' commands (as the linux shell does). I've tried opening the files with these names in /resources/bin which open a new terminal window and display what looks like the relevant -help text. But I can't seem to use these to send messages to and from pd from the Mac OS terminal. (in theory I could then automate this with Ruby). Any ideas, at all? ________________________________ Not got a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list