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SPUSER(1)                        User Manuals                        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 1998-2006 Spread Concepts, LLC.

SEE ALSO
       libspread(3) spread(1)

Spread                           DECEMBER 2001                       SPUSER(1)