44 lines
909 B
Groff
44 lines
909 B
Groff
.Dd February 4, 2015
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.Dt SFNC 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sfnc
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.Nd network connection over sf (client side)
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm sfnc
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.Ar host
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.Ar port
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.Ar transmit-device
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.Ar receive-device
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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communicates with another program over two byte steams and asks the remote
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program (usually
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.Xr sfncd 1 )
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to connect to the specified
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.Ar host
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and
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.Ar port .
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.Pp
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It reads bytes from the standard input and transmits them across
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.Ar transmit-device .
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It receives bytes from
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.Ar receive-device
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and sends them to the standard output.
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.Pp
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.Ss Protocol
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The client transmits in one
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.Xr sf 1
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session, which contains two nested
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.Xr sf 1
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connections (first host, then port), and then the actual body read from the
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standard input.
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The server transmits in one
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.Xr sf 1
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session, which begins once the host and port has been received, and it contains
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the response.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sf 1 ,
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.Xr sfncd 1 ,
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.Xr serial-transfer 7
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