anyhow, you can force a patch to be loaded (even if an external of the same name exists), by giving (sufficient parts of) its path: pe "./abs" will load an abstraction abs.pd in the current directory, although the function "abs" is built into pd

Hi, I cannot really follow this.When I try (in the windows-version and Win98SE) to open a patch with the message

"pd open subpatch.pd ./"

,the subpatch is only opened when it is in the APPLICATION-directory (i.e. /bin),but not,when it is in the same directory as the patch,which contains the message,although this directory is is defined with "-path". Sending the message with an absolute path,works fine. What's wrong ?

Michael