From f9909690cb590e0b9471c46d24ab536b94914ce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Osterried Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:27:46 +0000 Subject: updated manpage --- ax25/axgetput/axgetput.1 | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'ax25/axgetput') diff --git a/ax25/axgetput/axgetput.1 b/ax25/axgetput/axgetput.1 index 2b67d59..a148334 100644 --- a/ax25/axgetput/axgetput.1 +++ b/ax25/axgetput/axgetput.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .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 Ralf Baechle DL5RB -- cgit v1.2.3