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.\" Process this file with
.\" groff -man -Tascii foo.1
.\"
.TH SPUSER 1 "DECEMBER 2001" Spread "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
spuser \- Spread Group Communication Client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "spuser [-u " connection_name "] [-s " spread_address "] [-n " username "] [-p " password "] [-r]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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.

.SH OPTIONS
.IP "-u connection_name"
The name this connection to the daemon will use to uniquely identify itself.
.IP "-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.
.IP "-n username"
The user name that one would like to authenticate with
if password based authentication is enabled.
.IP "-p password"
The password to be used for authentication.
.IP "-r"
Use a random connection name.
.SH BUGS
Some limitations on message size and number of groups are hardcoded into spuser.
.SH AUTHOR
Yair Amir <yairamir@cnds.jhu.edu>

Jonathan Stanton <jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu>

Spuser is Copyright 1998-2001 Spread Concepts, LLC.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR libsp (3)
.BR spread (1)