IMISC(1C)

NAME
imisc - miscellaneous network service -- initiator

SYNOPSIS
imisc host [ prefix arguments ] [operation [ arguments ... ] ]

DESCRIPTION
The imisc program requests an operation from the miscellaneous network service provided by a server using remote operations services. The currently supported operations are:

operation	description
utctime	the universal time
gentime	the generalized time
time	the current time since the epoch
users	the users logged in on the system
chargen	the character generation pattern
qotd	the quote of the day
finger	the finger of users logged in
pwdgen	some pseudo-randomly generated passwords
tell	send a message to a remote user
ping	ping test for performance measurement
sink	sink test for performance measurement
echo	echo test for performance measurement

This program initiates remote operations to the “isode miscellany” service.

The prefix arguments are used to direct how many times the performance measurement tests should run: the `-c count' switch indicates the number of iterations to try, and the `-l length' switch indicates the number of octets to send as user data for each iteration.

If no operation is given on the command line, then imisc enters interactive mode: imisc will examine each line of the standard-input, treating the first word as the operation, and any remaining words as arguments. (Currently, only the finger operation takes arguments.)

The pseudo-operations help and quit do the obvious things.

FILES
isoentities	ISODE entities database
isobjects	ISODE objects database
isoservices	ISODE services database

DIAGNOSTICS
Obvious.

AUTHOR
Marshall T. Rose