NAME

spuser - Spread Group Communication Client

SYNOPSIS

spuser [-u connection_name] [-s spread_address] [-n username] [-p password] [-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 password 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>