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 .TH AXGETPUT 1 "21 January 2007" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-axgetput \- upload files via AX.25 Linux account
+axgetput \- upload or download files via AX.25 / axspawn Linux login session.
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B axgetput
 [-b \fIblocksize\fR] [-i] [-v] [-h] [?] \fIfilename\fR
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ Compute CRC checksum only.
 .TP
 \fB.B -s\fR
 Indicates input from a stream.  This option is available only if STDIN is a
-pipe.  The filename argument may be omitted if -s is given.
+pipe.  The filename argument may be omitted if -s is given. The length of
+the file need not to be known.
 .TP
 \fB\-v\fR
 print version and exit.
@@ -27,6 +28,50 @@ print version and exit.
 \fB-h, ?\fR
 print usage and exit.
 .LP
+.B axgetput
+is the actual name of the program. You execute for e.g.
+.B bget
+or
+.B bput
+while axgetput is the common program to which bget and bput are linked to.
+axgetput autodetermines which operation mode the user desires.
+
+axgetput sets the pty to be 8bit clean (thus enables binary mode for the
+file transfer). It requires that the user is logged in through axspawn(8).
+
+.B I. #BIN Protocol
+
+.B bget
+is used for downloading a file on this system from the unix login shell
+via his ax25 session to his packet-radio terminal program. The download
+"protocol" is the "#BIN" standard known from packet radio mailboxes.
+
+.B bput
+does it the other way round: with this comand, the user may upload a
+file to this computer.
+
+The #BIN protocol provides a CRC consistency check after the file is
+transfered. The transfer of the file modification time is part of the
+#BIN protocol.
+
+.LP
+.B II. YAPP Protocol
+
+.B yget
+or
+.B yput
+is reserverd for the yapp protocol, which is not supported in this version.
+
+.LP
+.B II. DIDADIT Protocol
+
+.B rget
+or
+.B rput
+is reserverd for the didadit protocol, which is not supported in this version.
+.LP
+Anyone like to implement yapp and didadit protcols?
+.LP
 .SH AUTHOR
 Thomas Osterried  DL9SAU <thomas@x-berg.in-berlin.de>
 Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>