term clients

term provides several default clients. They include trsh, tmon, tupload, tredir and txconn. This section will deal with the first three. The others each have their own section. No term client will work until you have established a term link.

tmon is a simple utility to monitor the statistics of your link. It prints a time histogram of characters transmitted and received. It is invoked simply as tmon. Since around version 1.11, tmon has had a bug that causes some information to be garbled. Send me mail if you'd like a patch to fix this.

trsh is similar to rsh. Without arguments, it spawns an interactive shell on the remote system (i.e. it logs you in). trsh is one of the primary means of accessing the remote end of the link via term. If given an argument, trsh executes that argument as a command on the remote system. For example trsh ls would give you a listing of the files in your home directory on the remote system.

tupload is the term 's basic file transfer program. It will transfer a file, given as it's first argument, to the opposite end of the link. By default, the files will be put in the same directory that you invoked term from on the other side. To put files in another directory, give it's name as a second argument to tupload. For example, if I want to put a copy of the file term114.tar.gz in /usr/tmp on the remote system, I would type tupload term114.tar.gz /usr/tmp. There is no client to do a download - to download files, trsh to the remote system and do a tupload.

Other term Clients

There are now a number of programs that have been modified to work with term, they include telnet, ftp. Mosaic and many others. They can be found on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/apps/comm/termstuff.