.TH sympathy 1 "%VERSIONSTAMP%" "%LONGVERSION%" "USER COMMANDS"
+.\" $Id: sympathy.1,v 1.28 2008/05/09 12:31:55 james Exp $
.SH NAME
sympathy \- client/server terminal emulator with logging
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.\" "sympathy -t [-K] [-d serialdev|-p] [-b baud] [-f] [-L log] [-u]\n"
-.\" "sympathy -s [-K] [-d serialdev|-p] [-b baud] [-f] [-L log] [-u] [-k skt]\n"
-.\" " [-n hlines] [-w WxH] [-F]\n"
-.\" "sympathy [-s -c] [-K] [-d serialdev|-p] [-b baud] [-f] [-L log] [-u] [-k skt]\n"
-.\" " [-n hlines] [-w WxH]\n"
-.\" "sympathy -c [-H] [-u] -k skt\n"
-.\" "sympathy -r id [-H] [-u]\n"
-.\" "sympathy {-l|-ls}\n"
-.\" "sympathy -v\n"
-.\" "sympathy -h\n"
-
+.B sympathy \-\fBt\fP
+[
+.B \fIterminal_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIdisplay_options\fP
+]
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBs\fP
+[
+.B \fIterminal_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIserver_options\fP
+]
+.br
+.B sympathy
+[
+.B \-\fBc\fP \-\fBs\fP
+] [
+.B \fIterminal_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIserver_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIclient_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIdisplay_options\fP
+]
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBc\fP
+[
+.B \fIclient_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIdisplay_options\fP
+]
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBr\fP
+id
+[
+.B \fIclient_options\fP
+] [
+.B \fIdisplay_options\fP
+]
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBC\fP \-\fBd\fP
+serialdev
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBls\fP
+.br
+.B sympathy \-\fBv\fP
+.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Sympathy
+is a replacement for screen(1), minicom(1) and consolidate(1). It
+is a VT52/VT100/ANSI terminal emulator with some special features. In normal use
+.I sympathy
+would sit between a terminal device (a serial port or a pseudo-tty) and
+the user's usual terminal emulator (eg xterm(1)).
+.I Sympathy
+renders data from the terminal device into an internal frame buffer
+and then expresses changes in this frame buffer to the outer terminal
+emulator using a small subset of ANSI escape codes.
+.I Sympathy
+always generates valid escape codes to the outer terminal, and will
+reset the state of its internal terminal emulator when it detects
+receive errors on the terminal device.
+.PP
+.I Sympathy\fP,
+unlike screen(1), takes care to preserve the scroll-back features
+of the outer terminal emulator: lines that scroll off the top of the internal
+frame buffer are scrolled off the top of the outer terminal emulator. When
+.I sympathy
+is used in client/server mode, some history is added to the outer
+terminal emulator when the client connects.
+.PP
+.I Sympathy
+also supports automatic baud\-rate detection, and advanced logging features.
+.I Sympathy
+logs whenever any of the modem control lines change state, receive errors,
+and the contents
+of any line on the frame buffer as the cursor moves off it.
.SH OPTIONS
-.SH EXIT STATUS
+.B \fImajor mode options\fP:
+.TP 5
+.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:
+.I sympathy
+connects to a
+.I sympathy
+server process and injects the history into the outer terminal
+emulator,
+and connects the user with the terminal device. One server process can support multiple
+client processes. This mode can also be used to obtain a dump of the current screen
+in HTML format (see the \-\fBH\fP option), inject key\-presses (see \-\fBI\fP)
+or allow control via a dumb terminal (see \-\fBN\fP).
+The \-\fPr\fP option connects to a
+server process socket called \fIid\fP, or if \fIid\fP is an integer
+\fIhost-name\fP.\fIid\fP mimicking the behaviour of screen(1).
+.I Sympathy
+searches for the socket in the following directories: \fI~/.sympathy\fP,
+\fI~/sympathy\fP, \fI/etc/sympathy\fP, \fI/var/sympathy\fP.
+With the \-\fBc\fP option the socket must be specified with the \-\fBk\fP
+option.
+.TP 5
+.B \fP[\fB \-c \-s \fP]
+act as both client and server:
+.I sympathy
+forks. The child process becomes a server, and the original process becomes a client
+which then connects to the server. This is the default major mode if no other is specified.
+Since the default terminal device is a pseudo-tty, running
+.I sympathy
+with no arguments will start a new shell in a daemonised process and connect to it
+as a client from the original process, mimicking the behaviour of screen(1)
+.TP 5
+.B \-l\fP or \fB\-ls
+show active sockets:
+.I sympathy
+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 \-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:
+.I sympathy
+will print the the version number of the code it was compiled from.
+.TP 5
+.B \-h
+show help:
+.I sympathy
+will show brief usage instructions
+.PP
+.B \fIterminal_options\fP:
+.TP 5
+.B \-d \fIserialdev\fP
+connect to terminal device \fIserialdev\fP, eg /dev/ttyS0.
+By default
+.I sympathy
+doesn't
+lock the terminal device, but checks periodically for lock files of other processes. If
+.I sympathy
+detects another lock file it displays \fBLocked\fP in the status line
+and refuses I/O on the device until the lock file is removed or becomes invalid.
+To lock the device use the \-\fBK\fP option.
+.I Sympathy
+will in addition check that the name of the device does not occur in /proc/cmdline
+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
+it. The \-\fBp\fP option is incompatible with the \-\fBd\fP option. This is the default
+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.
+.I Sympathy
+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 `_'.
+.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:
+/var/lock/uucp, /var/spool/lock, /var/spool/uucp, /etc/locks, /usr/spool/uucp,
+/var/spool/locks, /usr/spool/lock, /usr/spool/locks, /usr/spool/uucp/LCK, /var/lock.
+Lock files are assumed to be in HDB format.
+.TP 5
+.B \-b \fIbaud\-rate\fP
+set the baud\-rate of the terminal device specified in the \-\fBd\fP to
+\fIbaud\-rate\fP, if omitted the current baud\-rate of the serial port will be
+used.
+.TP 5
+.B \-f
+turn on flow control on the terminal device. This option adds \fICRTSCTS\fP to
+\fIsympathy\fP's default
+\fIc_cflag\fPs of \fICS8|CREAD|CLOCAL\fP.
+.TP 5
+.B \-L \fIlogfile\fP
+log activity to the file \fIlogfile\fP. If \fIlogfile\fP is `-' then log to
+\fIstdout\fP. Note that logging to \fIstdout\fP only makes sense with the
+\-\fBF\fP \fIserver_option\fP.
+.I Sympathy
+will also close and reopen its log file when it receives a \fBSIGHUP\fP, which
+with the \fB\-P\fP allows the use of logrotate(8).
+.TP 5
+.B \-P \fIpidfile\fP
+write the pid of the server/terminal process to \fIpidfile\fP, which is
+removed on clean exit.
+.TP 5
+.B \-R
+rotate log files. When the log\-file specified with the \fB\-L\fP option
+grows large
+.I sympathy
+will rotate it and compress old log\-files.
+.TP 5
+.B \-w \fIwidth\fP[x\fIheight\fP]
+set the initial size of the terminal emulator's frame buffer to be \fIwidth\fP columns
+by \fIheight\fP rows. If \fIheight\fP is omitted it defaults to 24, the default width
+is 80. These values may
+be overridden later by terminal escape sequences. If \-\fBp\fP is also specified
+the pseudo-tty will have its window size set to match.
+.PP
+.B \fIdisplay_options\fP:
+.TP 5
+.B \-u
+attempt to render Unicode characters in the internal frame buffer to the outer terminal
+emulator by using ISO-2202 sequences.
+.I Sympathy
+currently only checks to see if an appropriate character appears in the VT102
+US character set, or in the VT102 `special characters and line drawing' character set.
+If the character appears in neither of these then it will be rendered on the outer
+terminal emulator as a `?'.
+.TP 5
+.B \-H
+render the current state of the internal frame buffer to \fIstdout\fP as HTML, then quit.
+.TP 5
+.B \-N
+don't render the internal frame buffer using ANSI characters, but instead write characters
+that would be written to the screen to stdout. Take characters from stdin and send them
+to the device. This feature is useful when you wish to use sympathy in conjunction with programs
+like expect(1).
+.PP
+.B \fIclient_options\fP:
+.TP 5
+.B \-k \fIsocket\fP
+set the name in the file-system of the socket to which
+.I sympathy
+should connect. This option is \fBmandatory\fP unless the \-\fBs\fP or \-\fBr\fP options
+have also been given. If \-\fBs\fP is given then it will default to the socket which
+the forked server process opens. See the discussion of the \-\fPr\fP option above, for
+information on how
+.I sympathy
+chooses a socket name if \-\fBr\fP is specified.
+.TP 5
+.B \-I string
+Inject \fIstring\fP to the device as if it had been typed at the keyboard. Each character in
+the string is treated as a key\-press.
+.I Sympathy
+recognizes various common escapes for control characters. Other keys, for example the arrow keys,
+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
+should listen for clients. If this option is omitted
+.I sympathy
+will create a
+socket in ~/.sympathy, creating that directory if necessary, and named
+\fIhost-name\fP.\fIpid\fP where \fIpid\fP is the process id of the
+.I sympathy
+process that created the socket.
+.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
+is relaying data to the outer terminal emulator a reverse video status line
+will be visible at the bottom of the screen. The status line shows pertinent
+information. The first item on the line reminds you what the current escape character
+is, the second indicates the terminal device to which
+.I sympathy
+is connected, and the third shows the current baud\-rate. Other messages are:
+.TP 5
+.B Flow
+indicates that that RTS/CTS flow control is in operation on the terminal device.
+.TP 5
+.B RTS
+indicates that the terminal device is asserting the RTS line which indicates that
+the local system is ready to accept data from the remote system. If RTS/CTS
+flow control is in operation then the operating system or hardware may
+de-assert RTS even if RTS is shown. See the section on SERIAL PORT THEORY for
+more information.
+.TP 5
+.B CTS
+indicates that the terminal device has detected that the local system's CTS
+line is being asserted, indicating that the remote system is ready to receive
+data from the local system. See the section on SERIAL PORT THEORY for
+more information.
+.TP 5
+.B DTR
+indicates that the terminal device is asserting the DTR line indicating that the local
+system would like the local DCE to establish a connection to the remote
+DCE. See the section on SERIAL PORT THEORY for more information.
+.TP 5
+.B DSR
+indicates that the terminal device has detected that the local system's DSR line is
+being asserted, indicating that the local DCE is ready. See the section on
+SERIAL PORT THEORY for more information.
+.TP 5
+.B CD
+indicates that the terminal device has detected that the local system's CD line is
+being asserted, indicating that the local DCE has a connection to the remote DCE.
+See the section on SERIAL PORT THEORY for more information.
+.TP 5
+.B RI
+indicates that the terminal device has detected that the local system's RI line is
+being asserted, indicating that the DCE has detected a ringing signal or incoming
+connexion.
+.TP 5
+.B n clients
+shows the number of connected client processes. In the \-\fBt\fP major mode, this will
+always be zero.
+.TP 5
+.B Locked
+the terminal device was opened without the \-\fbK\fP flag and another process is
+currently using it. I/O to the device is currently suspended until the process dies
+or removes its lock file.
+.TP 5
+.B n errs
+indicates the number of frames received by the terminal device with errors (indicating
+the wrong parity, baud\-rate or framing). The count resets if no errors are
+detected by the device for 10 seconds.
+.TP 5
+.B try higher
+.I Sympathy
+thinks that you have set the wrong baud\-rate and is unable to determine the correct
+one as the current baud\-rate is lower than the correct baud\-rate. Use the \fBbaud\fP command
+to set a higher baud\-rate (eg 115200) and
+.I sympathy
+will try again.
+.TP 5
+.B try \fIrate\fBb
+.I Sympathy
+thinks that you have set the wrong baud\-rate and thinks that the correct baud\-rate is
+\fIrate\fP. Use the \fBbaud\fP command to change the current baud\-rate.
+.SH COMMANDS
+Commands are entered by sending the escape character, ascii(7) STX, from the outer terminal
+emulator (usually by pressing CTRL\-B), typing the command and pressing return. Whilst the
+command is entered the status line changes to `:' and rudimentary line editing is available.
+Whilst the command is entered the cursor \fBdoes not move\fP but remains where the terminal
+emulator has placed it. Pressing the escape character whilst in command mode
+will send the escape character to the terminal and cancel command mode. Valid
+commands are:
+.TP 7
+.B ansi
+switch from VT102 behaviour to ANSI behaviour. The most noticeable difference is
+the so\-called `xn' glitch.
+.TP 7
+.B noansi
+switch from ANSI behaviour to VT102 behaviour.
+.TP 7
+.B baud \fInnnn\fB
+set the current baud\-rate to nnnn
+.TP 7
+.B break
+send the break signal by asserting the TX line for longer than a frame period.
+.TP 7
+.B flow
+enable RTS/CTS flow control
+.TP 7
+.B noflow
+disable RTS/CTS flow control
+.TP 7
+.B hangup
+de-assert DTR for one second.
+.TP 7
+.B width \fInn\fB
+set the current width of the screen to \fInn\fP, and reset the terminal emulator.
+.TP 7
+.B height \fInn\fB
+set the current height of the screen to \fInn\fP, and reset the terminal emulator.
+.TP 7
+.B reset
+reset the terminal emulator
+.TP 7
+.B expand
+expand the size of the screen to fit the size of the current outer terminal emulator window
+.TP 7
+.B quit
+exit this instance of
+.I sympathy
+(disconnect from the server if present)
+.SH CHARACTER ENCODINGS
+For characters between 32 and 126
+.I sympathy
+interprets them as would a VT102 terminal by following the subset of ISO-2202 that
+the VT102 supports. Characters 128 thru 255 are assumed to be in UTF\-8(7), if
+however the UTF\-8 is invalid they will instead be interpreted as characters
+from ISO_8859-1(7). Character 155 (0x9b) when not part of a valid UTF\-8 sequence
+will be interpreted as the one byte CSI character.
+.PP
+For the outer terminal emulator
+.I sympathy
+by default issues the
+ESC % G sequence to select UTF\-8 mode and emits valid UTF-8. If the outer terminal
+does not, however, support UTF\-8 use the \-\fBu\fP switch to force
+.I sympathy
+to use the VT102 subset of ISO-2202.
+.SH LOG FILES
+Log files are made exclusively in the UTF\-8 encoding. Each line in the log file
+starts with the date and time at which the entry was made \- for example:
+.IP
+Feb 27 23:24:42.509440
+.PP
+.I Sympathy
+logs a line to the file whenever the cursor leaves the line. Additionally
+.I sympathy
+.IP \(bu 3
+logs certain other events to the file:
+.IP \(bu 3
+serial port parameter changes: baud\-rate and flow control.
+.IP \(bu 3
+serial port control line state changes.
+.IP \(bu 3
+serial port line discipline errors.
+.IP \(bu 3
+serial port errors.
+.IP \(bu 3
+suggested baud rates and bit frequency analyses.
+.IP \(bu 3
+transmission of breaks.
+.IP \(bu 3
+sending of the hangup signal (dropping the DTR line).
+.IP \(bu 3
+unknown or un\-handled messages sent on the socket.
+.IP \(bu 3
+connexion and disconnexion of clients.
+.IP \(bu 3
+reception of SIGHUP.
+.IP \(bu 3
+invalid UTF-8 sequences.
+.IP \(bu 3
+terminal size changes
+.IP \(bu 3
+un\-handled terminal command sequences
+.PP
+The log file is rotated when it gets too large if the \fI\-R\fP option
+is specified, and the log file is re-opened on receipt of a \fBSIGHUP\fP
+which together with the \fB\-P\fP allows the use of of a program such
+as logrotate(8)
+.SH AUTOMATIC BAUD RATE ALGORITHM
+If
+.I sympathy
+detects a framing error on the serial port it displays the count of
+errors on the status line, and logs the error.
+.IP
+<tty reports error: \\377 \\000 \\000>
+.PP
+The count is reset to zero after ten seconds
+have elapsed during which no errors have occurred.
+.I Sympathy
+looks at bit patterns of the characters received, and
+measures the length (in units of the receiving UART's
+bit period) of any runs of '1's delimited by '0's and vice\-versa. It
+then calculates the statistics on the length of these runs, and logs these.
+.IP
+<tty_bit_analyse: 0000000001 [0,0,0,0,0,0,110,0,0,80]>
+.PP
+For a typical
+stream of ASCII data, the most common run length will be the correct bit
+period.
+.I Sympathy
+uses this together with the current bit period to calculate the most probable
+correct baud\-rate, which is displayed in the status line, and logged.
+If the correct baud\irate is higher than the current baud\-rate then the most common bit frequency will be '0' or '1' and the correct baud\-rate cannot be
+determined. In this case sympathy will display and log the message 'try higher'.
+.IP
+<tty_analyse: 80 errors, current rate 115200b, suggest 19200b>
+.PP
+The algorithm only works well if the data stream is normal. If the data stream
+is generated by the reception, at the wrong baud\-rate, of characters emitted
+by
+.I sympathy
+then the algorithm will be biased towards suggesting that the baud\-rate
+is too low. Noise on the line will also result in sympathy concluding that
+the baud\-rate is too low.
+.SH SIGNALS
+.I Sympathy
+reacts to a set of signals. You can use the \fB-P\fP option
+to easily determine the PID of the
+.I sympathy
+process to which you would like to send a signal.
+.TP 8
+.B SIGINT
+.I Sympathy
+will immediately try to restore the outer terminal emulator to its original
+state and then exit.
+.TP 8
+.B SIGHUP
+.I Sympathy
+will close and reopen the log-file specified with the -L option, which allows
+the use of programs like logrotate(8)
+.TP 8
+.B SIGWINCH
+.I Sympathy
+will redraw the display in the outer terminal emulator so that it will fit within
+the new display size.
+.TP 8
+.B SIGCHLD
+.I Sympathy
+will wait for children if some were born (for example from compressing rotated logs)
.SH ENVIRONMENT
-.SH FILES
+.I sympathy
+uses the \fBHOME\fP environment variable to determine the default
+location for sockets.
+.br
+.I sympathy
+sets the value of \fBTERM\fP in pseudo-ttys spawned using the
+\-\fBp\fP argument to `xterm'.
+.br
+.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).
+.I Sympathy
+also emulates a few extra sequences: the xterm(1) ESC ] ... sequences, and
+the ANSI CSI @ and CSI b sequences. The numeric keypad follows exactly the
+sequences produced by an xterm rather than the exact VT102/VT220 sequences.
+.I Sympathy
+also recognises the ESC % G and the ESC % @ sequences to switch between ISO-2202
+and UTF\-8 but ignores them (see CHARACTER ENCODING below)
+.SH SERIAL PORT THEORY
+A serial connexion was originally envisaged to connect a DTE (Data Terminal Equipment)
+to a DCE (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment). The DCE (some sort of modem) would assert
+the DTE's (the computer or terminal) DSR line to indicate it was ready. The DTE would
+assert DTR to indicate to the DCE that it should attempt a connexion to the remote DCE.
+Once a connexion was established the DCE would assert the DTE's CD pin. Data could then
+flow between the DTR and the remote DTE via the two DCEs. Flow control was provided
+via the RTS and CTS lines. The DTE asserts RTS when it is capable of receiving new data,
+and pauses its transmission of data when the CTS line is de-asserted. The local DCE
+asserts CTS when the remote DCE detects RTS, and vice versa.
+.PP
+In modern usage the signals are slightly different, for a typical connexion using modems
+DSR indicates that the modem is ready, a drop DTR is used to indicate to the
+modem that it should break the connexion to the remote modem. CD indicates that
+the local modem is connected to the remote modem, and CTS and RTS behave as before. Connexion
+is established by in-band signalling before CD is asserted.
+.PP
+For a \fBnull modem\fP cable local DSR and DTR are wired to remote CD, local
+CTS to remote RTS, and local RTS to remote CTS. Thus asserting local DTR
+asserts local DSR and remote CD, and asserting local RTS asserts remote CTS.
+.PP
+When RTS/CTS flow control is in operation and the receive buffer becomes full,
+the operating system, or the hardware, de-asserts RTS, causing (via the DCEs or
+the null modem cable) a de-assertion of remote CTS which in turn causes the
+remote DTE to cease transmission.
.SH EXAMPLES
-.SH ERRORS
+.PP
+using
+.I sympathy
+to mimic screen(1):
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy
+.IP
+.I Sympathy
+forks. The child becomes a daemon server and launches a new shell in a
+pseudo-tty, the original process becomes a client and connects to the server
+and shows the output. The user then uses the new shell and after some time
+either hangs up on the client or issues CTRL\-B quit, and the client detaches from
+the server.
+.IP
+Later the user wishes to retrieve her session and to determine which sympathy
+sessions are active and issues:
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-ls
+.br
+ /home/foo/.sympathy/barhost.8843 (Active)
+.br
+[foo@barhost ~]$
+.IP
+The user then issues:
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-r 8843
+.IP
+and is reconnected to her session.
+.PP
+using sympathy to mimic minicom(1):
+.IP
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-t \-d /dev/modem \-b 9600 \-K
+.IP
+.I Sympathy
+opens the device /dev/modem and locks it, sets the baud\-rate to 9600 baud and disables
+flow control. A VT102 terminal emulator then displays the data from the modem. The user
+quits the emulator by issuing CTRL\-B quit, which unlocks the modem and exits
+.I sympathy.
+.PP
+using
+.I sympathy
+to mimic consolidate(1):
+.IP
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-s \-d /dev/ttyS13 \-b 19200 \-K \-k /var/sympathy/13 \-L /var/sympathy/13.log -R
+.IP
+.I Sympathy
+becomes a daemon and detaches from the current tty. It then opens the device
+/dev/ttyS13 and locks it, sets the baud\-rate to 19200 baud and disables flow
+control.
+.I Sympathy
+then listens for clients connecting on the socket \fI/var/sympathy/13\fP, whilst logging
+completed lines and changes in status to the file \fI/var/sympathy/13.log\fP,
+rotating the log file when it gets too large.
+.IP
+A user wishing to see the current status of /dev/ttyS13 issues:
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-c \-k /var/sympathy/13
+.br
+or
+.br
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-r 13
+.IP
+and the last 200 lines of history are injected into the history of her outer
+terminal emulator and she is connected to /dev/ttyS13. The user disconnects from the
+server by issuing CTRL\-B quit.
+.PP
+using
+.I sympathy
+to mimic script(1):
+.IP
+.IP
+[foo@barhost ~]$ sympathy \-t \-L typescript
+.IP
+.I Sympathy
+starts a shell in a ptty and logs completed lines to the file typescript. When the shell exits
+.I sympathy
+will terminate, or the user can press CTRL-B which will close the ptty and send a hangup
+to its controlling process.
.SH SEE ALSO
screen(1) minicom(1) consolidate(1)
.SH STANDARDS
+ANSI X3.64, ISO-6429, ECMA-48, ISO-2202, ISO-8859, ISO-10646, Digital Equipment Corp. VT102.
.SH BUGS
-.SH SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
+.PD
+.IP \(bu 3
+The command editor and parser should support better line editing.
+.IP \(bu 3
+It should be possible to change the escape character.
+.IP \(bu 3
+The HTML generated with the \-\fBH\fP option is ugly.
+.IP \(bu 3
+No useful error message is generated if opening the terminal device fails in the
+\-\fBc\fP \-\fBs\fP major mode.
.SH AUTHOR
-.\" vi: set syn=groff
+James McKenzie, sympathy@madingley.org
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