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 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:

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:37:49 -0300 From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> To: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu mailto:msp@ucsd.edu> Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> Subject: [PD] whats the '-ascii' flag in [pd~] for? Message-ID: <CAEAsFmjCYBHghJj54dtCaoTS9m7Yk=HbLffPZmi42SMjVkmYxw@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAEAsFmjCYBHghJj54dtCaoTS9m7Yk=HbLffPZmi42SMjVkmYxw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

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

cheers

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