Great, my nonsense made sense after all.

cheers Juha

hi again,

I am dumb indeed! You probably meant ``interpreted by a [pack]''. And the answer is: probably yes -- that is how pack works in max...

K.

Krzysztof Czaja wrote: ...

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forgive my dumbness, but do you mean, that when sending a `read ...' message to a [soundfiler], the actual message sent should be a list?

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Juha Vehvil?inen wrote: ...

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so, to repeat myself in Pd-jargon: wouldn't it make sense to give messages with text the selecton "symbol" and messages with white space the selector "list"?