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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 1998-2001 Spread Concepts, LLC.

SEE ALSO

       libsp(3) spread(1)