The command tx help
will list the available services.
Hitting Cntrl^C will cause the program to transmit the "abort" message via UDP (versus TCP). If there is a reply, it will be printed. There is a two second alarm sent which will terminate if nothing is received. The abort message will also be sent by the abort option, no reply will be printed.
If there is an environment variable TXEXTRA present, the value will be concatenated to the message.
port= specifies the socket port to use. The default value is 0x1340. Where the 0x specifies the address is in hexadecimal.
ether=node,port specifies the node and port simultaneously
timestamp - puts an ISO8601 timesatmp in front of message (see examples).
DEBUG - sets the debugging level for the tx program.
timeout= sets an alarm time that will terminate in the specified number of seconds and cause the program to exit with a non-zero exit code.
tx point ra=12:34:34 dec=33:33:56 equinox=2000
tx node=mambo port=x01341 help
asks the server on node
mambo responding to port 0x1341 what services are available.
tx ether=stella,x01341 temps
asks the server on node
stella responding to port 0x1341 what the weather is like.
tx timestamp where
2007-02-01T02:12:32Z done where ra=03:29:25.65 dec=+31:30:13 equinox=2007.084 ha=0.095 secz=1.00 alt=89.5 az=190.1