SPUSER(1)

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> Jonathan Stanton <jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu> Spuser is Copyright 1998-2001 Spread Concepts, LLC.

SEE ALSO
libsp(3) spread(1)