NAME
command.reg - simple GroupKit command line registration interface
SYNOPSIS
- command.reg ?-pport? ?-hhost? ?confname
DESCRIPTION
Command.reg provides a very light-weight command line registrar client. The idea with command.reg is to allow joining "standard" conferences very easily, such as a PostIt note conference which would allow placing notes on other users' screens. As such, this registrar client could be started up in a .xinitrc file.
If confname is omitted, this registrar client will list the names of the currently running conferences. If confname is instead specified, and a conference with that name exists, the user will be joined to that conference. Finally, if the named conference does not exist, command.reg assumes that confname is the name of a conference type (e.g. "Brainstorming Tool") and creates a new conference of that type using confname as its name.
This registrar client connects to the central registrar, which it locates by examining the "host" and "port" keys in the "registrar" environment, which are usually specified in the user's .groupkitrc file. If the port is not specified, it defaults to 9068. The registrar's host and port can be overridden on the command line by specifying the -h or -p options.
This registrar client remains running until the conference that it spawns terminates.
BUGS
When creating a new conference, command.reg does not check to see if the specified confname corresponds to a valid conference type, but blindly tries to create it anyway. This gets cleaned up when the non-existent conference fails to connect back to the registrar client, but things should not get this far in the first place.
SEE ALSO
registrar(1), gk_initGenericRC(n)
AUTHOR
Mark Roseman ([email protected])