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authorjames <>2008-05-09 12:35:57 +0000
committerjames <>2008-05-09 12:35:57 +0000
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.SH OPTIONS
.B \fImajor mode options\fP:
.TP 5
-.B \-t
-act as terminal emulator only:
-.I sympathy
-opens the terminal device and outputs into the outer terminal emulator. When
-.I sympathy exits the
-device is closed and no process remains. In this mode
-.I sympathy
-behaves like a traditional
-terminal emulator such as cu(1) or minicom(1).
-.TP 5
-.B \-s
-act as server only:
-.I sympathy
-opens the terminal device and renders into an internal frame buffer, listens for clients
-on the socket and logs activity. By default the server will fork into a daemon process
-but can be forced to remain in the foreground with the \-\fBF\fP option.
+.B \-C\fP
+clear lock files
+.I sympathy
+will remove inactive lockfiles for the specified serial device, and then exit.
.TP 5
.B \-c\fP or \fB\-r\fP \fIid\fP
act as client only:
@@ -139,10 +127,22 @@ will show active sockets, ones to which a call to connect(2) succeeds,
in ~/.sympathy. If the socket name begins with the host-name of the machine, and
the call to connect(2) fails, then socket will be unlinked.
.TP 5
-.B \-C\fP
-clear lock files
-.I sympathy
-will remove inactive lockfiles for the specified serial device.
+.B \-s
+act as server only:
+.I sympathy
+opens the terminal device and renders into an internal frame buffer, listens for clients
+on the socket and logs activity. By default the server will fork into a daemon process
+but can be forced to remain in the foreground with the \-\fBF\fP option.
+.TP 5
+.B \-t
+act as terminal emulator only:
+.I sympathy
+opens the terminal device and outputs into the outer terminal emulator. When
+.I sympathy exits the
+device is closed and no process remains. In this mode
+.I sympathy
+behaves like a traditional
+terminal emulator such as cu(1) or minicom(1).
.TP 5
.B \-v
show current version:
@@ -273,6 +273,12 @@ are mapped to character codes between 128 and 255, see src/keys.h for details.
.PP
.B \fIserver_options\fP:
.TP 5
+.B \-F
+tells the
+.I sympathy
+server process not to become a daemon but to remain the the foreground. This option is
+incompatible with the \-\fBc\fP \-\fBs\fP major mode.
+.TP 5
.B \-k \fIsocket\fP
set the name in the file-system of the socket on which
.I sympathy
@@ -284,22 +290,16 @@ socket in ~/.sympathy, creating that directory if necessary, and named
.I sympathy
process that created the socket.
.TP 5
-.B \-S
-tells the
-.I sympathy
-server process to log errors to syslog.
-.TP 5
-.B \-F
-tells the
-.I sympathy
-server process not to become a daemon but to remain the the foreground. This option is
-incompatible with the \-\fBc\fP \-\fBs\fP major mode.
-.TP 5
.B \-n \fInlines\fP
sets the number of lines of history that the server process stores to \fInlines\fP. When
a client connects \fInlines\fP of history are injected into the outer terminal emulator
so that they can be seen when scrolling back. By default the server stores 200 lines of
history.
+.TP 5
+.B \-S
+tells the
+.I sympathy
+server process to log errors to syslog.
.SH OPERATION
When
.I sympathy