.TH BCAST 1L
.SH NAME
bcast \- broadcast daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.B bcast
[
.B \-verbose
]
.I port
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B bcast
is a daemon that binds
.I port
on the local machine and broadcasts whatever it receives on its
standard input to any processes that connect to it.  This is done
on a ``you snooze, you lose'' basis; that is, if a process hasn't read
the data that
.B bcast
received before it gets another chunk,
.B bcast
will not attempt to buffer the old data.  Any read done by that process
will get the most recently-received data.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-verbose
puts the program in verbose mode, causing it to print a message whenever
a connection is accepted or rejected.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.LP
Various error messages on system call failures.
.SH NOTES
.LP
.B bcast
will not accept connections from any machines outside
of the Tymnet sub-network.
.SH AUTHOR
.LP
Ed Mooring (mooring@antares.tymnet.com)