.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B tripectl
-is a simple client which can be used, either interactively or from a
-script, to send commands to and read status information from a running
+program is a simple client which can be used, either interactively or
+from a script, to send commands to and read status information from a
+running
.BR tripe (8)
server. It can also be used to start
.BR tripe (8),
.SS "Use from scripts"
If arguments are given to
.BR tripectl ,
-they are concatenated with spaces between and submitted to the server
-after connection. Any
+they are quoted if necessary to protect spaces and other special
+characters, concatenated with spaces between, and submitted to the
+server after connection. Any
.B INFO
responses returned by the server are written to standard output (without
the
.IR "The Trivial IP Encryption Protocol" ,
.IR "The Wrestlers Protocol" .
.SH "AUTHOR"
-Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>
+Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>