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spuser - Spread Group Communication Client
SYNOPSIS
spuser [-u connection_name] [-s spread_address] [-n username] [-p pass‐
word] [-r]
DESCRIPTION
spuser is a Spread client program that can send and receive messages
and join and leave groups. By default it trys to connect to a Spread
daemon running on port 4803 of the local machine.
OPTIONS-u connection_name
The name this connection to the daemon will use to uniquely
identify itself.
-s spread address
The port number, or port number and host to which the spuser
program should connect in order to reach a Spread daemon.
-n username
The user name that one would like to authenticate with if pass‐
word based authentication is enabled.
-p password
The password to be used for authentication.
-r Use a random connection name.
BUGS
Some limitations on message size and number of groups are hardcoded
into spuser.
AUTHOR
Yair Amir <yairamir@cnds.jhu.edu>
Jonathan Stanton <jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu>
Spuser is Copyright 1998-2006 Spread Concepts, LLC.
SEE ALSOlibspread(3)spread(1)Spread DECEMBER 2001 SPUSER(1)