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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man1/con.1 b/static/unix-v10/man1/con.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8d7dfa66 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man1/con.1 @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +.TH CON 1 +.CT 1 comm_mach +.SH NAME +con, rx \- remote login and execution +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B con +[ +.B -l +] +.I machine +.PP +.B rx +[ +.B -n +] +.I machine +[ +.I command-word ... +] +.PP +.BI /usr/bin/m/ machine +[ +.I command-word ... +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Con +connects to the computer whose network address is +.I machine +and logs in if possible. +Standard input and output go to the local machine. +Option +.B -l +prevents automatic login; a normal login dialog ensues. +.PP +The quit signal (control-\e) is a local escape. +It prompts with the local machine name and +.BR >> . +Legitimate responses to the prompt are +.TP \w'\fL!\fIcommand\ \ 'u +.B i +Send a quit [sic] signal to the remote machine. +.PD0 +.TP +.BR q , " x" ", or " . +Exit. +.TP +.B b +Send a break. +.TP +.BI ! command +Execute +.I command +locally. +.PD +.PP +.I Rx +executes one shell command +on the remote machine as if logged in there, +but with local standard input and output. +Unquoted shell metacharacters in the command +are interpreted +locally, quoted ones remotely. +The assignment +.B REXEC=1 +appears in the remote environment. +With no arguments, +.I rx +just diagnoses availability. +Option +.B -n +ignores sporadic end-of-file indications on a +sick network. +.PP +Network addresses for both +.I con +and +.I rx +have the form +.IB network ! host +or simply +.I host. +Supported networks are +.L dk +(Datakit) and +.L tcp +(TCP/IP, usually Ethernet). +.PP +Directory +.F /usr/bin/m +contains machine names as commands: +.BI /usr/bin/m/ machine +with no argument runs an appropriate flavor of +.I con +for the named +.I machine. +If given arguments, +.BI /usr/bin/m/ machine +runs +.I rx +with those arguments. +If +.F /usr/bin/m +is in the +.IR sh (1) +search path, +the names become commands for navigating the +local cluster. +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.L +rx overthere cat file1 >file2 +Copy remote +.I file1 +to local +.IR file2 . +.TP +.L +rx overthere cat file1 ">file2" +Copy remote +.I file1 +to remote +.IR file2. +.TP +.L +eqn paper | rx pipe troff -ms | rx arend lp +Parallel processing: +do each stage of a pipeline on a different machine. +.SH FILES +.TF /usr/ipc/lib/auth* +.TP +.F /usr/ipc/lib/auth* +authentication +.TP +.F /usr/ipc/lib/serv* +servers +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR push (1), +.IR dcon (1), +.IR cu (1), +.IR dkmgr (8), +.IR svcmgr (8), +.IR tcpmgr (8), +.IR ipc (3) +.br +D. L. Presotto, +`Interprocess Communication in the Eighth Edition +.SM UNIX +System', +this manual, Volume\ 2 +.SH BUGS +The remote standard error and standard output are combined +and go inseparably to the local standard output. +.br +Under +.I rx, +a program +that should behave specially towards terminals may not: +.IR sh (1) +will not prompt, +.IR vi (1) +will not manage the screen, etc. +.I Nrx +(see +.IR dcon (1)) +avoids this trouble, but has others of its own. +.br +.I Con +and +.I rx +may not guess the right kind of connection. +In case of trouble, try the programs in +.IR dcon (1). +.br +The names in +.F /usr/bin/m +are conventions, not actual network addresses. |
