Annotation of researchv10dc/man/adm/man1/con.1, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .TH CON 1
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_mach
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: con, rx \- remote login and execution
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B con
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B -l
        !             9: ]
        !            10: .I machine
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: .B rx
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B -n
        !            15: ]
        !            16: .I machine
        !            17: [
        !            18: .I command-word ...
        !            19: ]
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .BI /usr/bin/m/ machine
        !            22: [
        !            23: .I command-word ...
        !            24: ]
        !            25: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            26: .I Con
        !            27: connects to the computer whose network address is
        !            28: .I machine
        !            29: and logs in if possible.
        !            30: Standard input and output go to the local machine.
        !            31: Option
        !            32: .B -l
        !            33: prevents automatic login; a normal login dialog ensues.
        !            34: .PP
        !            35: The quit signal (control-\e) is a local escape.
        !            36: It prompts with the local machine name and
        !            37: .BR >> .
        !            38: Legitimate responses to the prompt are
        !            39: .TP \w'\fL!\fIcommand\ \ 'u
        !            40: .B i
        !            41: Send a quit [sic] signal to the remote machine.
        !            42: .PD0
        !            43: .TP
        !            44: .BR q , " x" ", or " .
        !            45: Exit.
        !            46: .TP
        !            47: .B b
        !            48: Send a break.
        !            49: .TP
        !            50: .BI ! command
        !            51: Execute
        !            52: .I command
        !            53: locally.
        !            54: .PD
        !            55: .PP
        !            56: .I Rx
        !            57: executes one shell command
        !            58: on the remote machine as if logged in there,
        !            59: but with local standard input and output.
        !            60: Unquoted shell metacharacters in the command
        !            61: are interpreted
        !            62: locally, quoted ones remotely.
        !            63: The assignment
        !            64: .B REXEC=1
        !            65: appears in the remote environment.
        !            66: With no arguments, 
        !            67: .I rx
        !            68: just diagnoses availability.
        !            69: Option
        !            70: .B -n 
        !            71: ignores sporadic end-of-file indications on a
        !            72: sick network.
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: Network addresses for both
        !            75: .I con
        !            76: and
        !            77: .I rx
        !            78: have the form
        !            79: .IB network ! host
        !            80: or simply
        !            81: .I host.
        !            82: Supported networks are
        !            83: .L dk
        !            84: (Datakit) and
        !            85: .L tcp
        !            86: (TCP/IP, usually Ethernet).
        !            87: .PP
        !            88: Directory
        !            89: .F /usr/bin/m
        !            90: contains machine names as commands:
        !            91: .BI /usr/bin/m/ machine
        !            92: with no argument runs an appropriate flavor of
        !            93: .I con
        !            94: for the named
        !            95: .I machine.
        !            96: If given arguments,
        !            97: .BI /usr/bin/m/ machine
        !            98: runs
        !            99: .I rx
        !           100: with those arguments.
        !           101: If
        !           102: .F /usr/bin/m
        !           103: is in the
        !           104: .IR sh (1)
        !           105: search path,
        !           106: the names become commands for navigating the
        !           107: local cluster.
        !           108: .SH EXAMPLES
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .L
        !           111: rx overthere cat file1 >file2
        !           112: Copy remote
        !           113: .I file1
        !           114: to local
        !           115: .IR file2 .
        !           116: .TP
        !           117: .L
        !           118: rx overthere cat file1 ">file2"
        !           119: Copy remote
        !           120: .I file1
        !           121: to remote
        !           122: .IR file2.
        !           123: .TP
        !           124: .L
        !           125: eqn paper | rx pipe troff -ms | rx arend lp
        !           126: Parallel processing:
        !           127: do each stage of a pipeline on a different machine.
        !           128: .SH FILES
        !           129: .TF /usr/ipc/lib/auth*
        !           130: .TP
        !           131: .F /usr/ipc/lib/auth*
        !           132: authentication
        !           133: .TP
        !           134: .F /usr/ipc/lib/serv*
        !           135: servers
        !           136: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           137: .IR push (1),
        !           138: .IR dcon (1),
        !           139: .IR cu (1),
        !           140: .IR dkmgr (8),
        !           141: .IR svcmgr (8),
        !           142: .IR tcpmgr (8),
        !           143: .IR ipc (3)
        !           144: .br
        !           145: D. L. Presotto,
        !           146: `Interprocess Communication in the Eighth Edition
        !           147: .SM UNIX
        !           148: System',
        !           149: this manual, Volume\ 2
        !           150: .SH BUGS
        !           151: The remote standard error and standard output are combined 
        !           152: and go inseparably to the local standard output.
        !           153: .br
        !           154: Under
        !           155: .I rx,
        !           156: a program
        !           157: that should behave specially towards terminals may not:
        !           158: .IR sh (1)
        !           159: will not prompt,
        !           160: .IR vi (1)
        !           161: will not manage the screen, etc.
        !           162: .I Nrx
        !           163: (see
        !           164: .IR dcon (1))
        !           165: avoids this trouble, but has others of its own.
        !           166: .br
        !           167: .I Con
        !           168: and
        !           169: .I rx
        !           170: may not guess the right kind of connection.
        !           171: In case of trouble, try the programs in
        !           172: .IR dcon (1).
        !           173: .br
        !           174: The names in
        !           175: .F /usr/bin/m
        !           176: are conventions, not actual network addresses.

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