It looks like a bool which seems to control whether message passing is via binbuf or string:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/extra/pd~/pd~.c#L458

On Mar 2, 2022, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:37:49 -0300
From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>
To: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>
Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Subject: [PD] whats the '-ascii' flag in [pd~] for?
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Here's another one, there's an undocumented '-ascii' flag in [pd~] we need
to document.

see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/extra/pd~/pd~.c#L1136

cheers

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