greetings all,

i've burst in on a conversation or two already on this list, but this is my first more or less well-considered posting -- i have two questions, at the moment, which hopefully someone on this list can help me with:

1. is there any way to get a (dynamic) message evaluated as if it were preceded by a ";", i.e. sent to the "receive" object named by its initial element?

   i'm trying to use "textfile" to produce better human-readable and less network-intensive preset files than the ones i get using the "state" object (which is itself incredibly handy, just not what i want right now...)

2. is there a way to use the 'pd-NAME' quasi-"send" selector to get pd instructions evaluated with respect to the current window (canvas?) without including the literal window title (canvas name?) in the message? are the 'pd-NAME' messages documented anywhere?

apologies if these questions have been dealt with before on this list -- i've looked through my own archives and found several related discussions, but the links named (i recall 'test.pilot.fm') don't seem to resolve any more...

aside from all of the above, pd is wonderful: major kudos to Miller and all writers of externals and providers of patches: i was actually able to port my favorite algorithmic improvisation toy from cm in a single day... whee-hee!

marmosets, Bryan