From 236863f163db6a700db2d2ea780688f20c00d316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: james <>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:30:23 +0000
Subject: *** empty log message ***

---
 sympathy.1 | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'sympathy.1')

diff --git a/sympathy.1 b/sympathy.1
index 43a8b88..c76ef20 100644
--- a/sympathy.1
+++ b/sympathy.1
@@ -162,9 +162,13 @@ as an argument to the \fIconsole\fP kernel parameter.
 The \-\fBd\fP option is incompatible with the \-\fBp\fP option. 
 .TP 5
 .B \-p
-connect to a pseudo-tty instead of a terminal device, and fork a login shell in
+connect to a pseudo\-tty instead of a terminal device, and fork a login shell in
 it. The \-\fBp\fP option is incompatible with the \-\fBd\fP option. This is the default 
-terminal device if none is specified.
+terminal device if none is specified. The first non\-option command line
+arugment is considered to be the a binary to run in the pseudo\-tty, subsequent
+arguments are parsed to the binary. The current value of PATH is searched for
+the binary if it does not start with '/'. If no binary is specified 
+then '/bin/sh' is called with \fIargv[0]\fP set to '\-'.  
 .TP 5
 .B \-K
 lock the terminal device specified in the \-\fBd\fP option. 
@@ -173,8 +177,9 @@ generates lock files in a staggering variety of formats and places. For locks
 based on the name of the device 
 .I sympathy 
 generates lock files for all devices
-with the same major and minor in /dev, /dev/usb and /dev/tts, it uses both normal
-and lower case and replaces occurrences of `/' in the device name with both `.' and `_'.
+with the same major and minor in /dev, /dev/usb and /dev/tts, it uses both
+normal and lower case and replaces occurrences of `/' in the device name with
+both `.' and `_'.
 .I Sympathy
 also generates locks based on the device major and minor numbers, and for all lock file
 names generates them in any of the following directories that are writable:
@@ -530,6 +535,9 @@ sets the value of \fBTERM\fP in pseudo-ttys spawned using the
 .I Sympathy
 will use \fBCSI ] 0 ;\fP to set the window title to the name of the
 socket or device if \fBTERM\fP starts with \fIxterm\fP or \fIrxvt\fP.
+.br
+The \fBPATH\fP enviroment variable is searched for the binary to be run
+in the pseudo\-tty.
 .SH EMULATION
 .I Sympathy
 completely emulates a VT102 terminal (including the VT52 emulation). 
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