advise(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

advise − Attach to another user.

SYNOPSIS

advise [-ADad?] [-M module] | [-Ss] [-m char] [ device | username ]

DESCRIPTION

Advise attaches a user (the advisor) to another user’s (the advisee) terminal in such a way the the advisor can type for the advisee and view what the advisee’s terminal is displaying.

The advisee would typically type “advise -a” to allow advise attaches; the advisor would then type “advise username” which would connect the advisors terminal the the advisee’s.

All characters the advisor types are sent to the advisee’s terminal as if the advisee typed them save the meta character.

The default meta character is tilde (~). The advisor uses the meta character to disconnect or suspend the advise session. The meta commands that are available to the advisor are:

~? Meta character help message.

~~ Send the meta character to the advisee’s terminal.

~. Disconnect advise session.

~=C Change the meta character to C.

~^Z Suspend this advise session.

In Advise mode the advisor uses “~.” to disconnect the advise session (Note: the advisor should use “~~” to send one tilde to the advisee’s terminal).

In “spy mode” the advisor should use an interrupt is use to disconnect the advise session.

“advise -d” can be used by the advisee to disconnect the advise session.

OPTIONS

-A Allow advise attaches to this terminal.

-D Disallow advise attaches to this terminal.

-M module
Name of module to place advise module under.

-S When attaching to another user, don’t send the attach message. (available to the super user, only).

-a Push advise module on standard input stream and allow advise attaches.

-d Push advise module on standard input stream and disallow advise attaches.

-m char
Change the meta character to “char”. The default meta character is tilde (~).

-s Spy mode only (ie, input from the advisor is not passed to the advisee).

device
The name of the tty device to advise.

username
The name of the user to advise.

AUTHOR

Keith M. Gabryelski (ag@amix.commodore.com)