BPCHAT(1)

💬 BPCHAT(1) — the Bundle Protocol chat test program 💬

okay bestie, so you know how the manual name is BPCHAT(1) and it lives in the BP executables section? yeah. that's this. it's a manual page. for chatting. over space internet. no cap. 🛰️✨

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✨ NAME ✨

bpchat — Bundle Protocol chat test program 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bpchat sourceEID destEID [ct]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, bpchat uses the Bundle Protocol to send whatever text you type in as bundles, and it also displays the payload of bundles it receives as output. it's basically the talk utility but make it interplanetary — it operates over the Bundle Protocol instead of whatever boring old networking talk uses.

think of it as bpsource and bpsink fused into one single program, main character energy 💅. one difference though: unlike bpsource, bpchat emits bundles with a sourceEID. iconic.

if both the sourceEID and the destEID are bpchat applications, then two users can chat with each other over the Bundle Protocol 🎀. lines that one user types on the keyboard get transported over the network in bundles and displayed on the screen of the other user — and the reverse, obviously. it's giving pen pals but the pen is a bundle.

bpchat terminates upon receiving the SIGQUIT signal, i.e., ^C from the keyboard. so that's your exit strategy, bestie. 🦋

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🎀 EXIT STATUS 🎀

• "0" — bpchat has terminated normally 🥳. Any problems encountered during operation will be noted in the ion.log log file.
• "1" — bpchat has terminated due to a BP transmit or reception failure 😭. Details should be noted in the ion.log log file.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• [ct] — if the string ct is appended as the last argument, then bundles will be sent with custody transfer requested. that's it, that's the whole option list. one option. she's lowkey efficient. 👑

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🍓 FILES 🍓

No configuration files are needed. none. zero. she's self-sufficient, she doesn't need your config files. 🧚

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

No environment variables apply. the vibes are entirely un-environed. 💜

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🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

diagnostic messages produced by bpchat get written to the ION log file ion.log. so if something's wrong, that's where the receipts live 📝.

• Can't attach to BP. — bpadmin has not yet initialized Bundle Protocol operations.
• Can't open own endpoint. — Another application has already opened ownEndpointId. Terminate that application and rerun.
• bpchat bundle reception failed. — BP system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.
• No space for ZCO extent. — ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.
• Can't create ZCO. — ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.
• bpchat can't send echo bundle. — BP system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.

okay so like four of those are the same advice. it's "go read ion.log, fix the thing, run it again." the earlier messages are the ones with the actual tea, so read them first fr fr. 🙈

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💀 BUGS 💀

Report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu> — yes it's a real email address, go off. 🐛

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

bpecho(1), bpsource(1), bpsink(1), bp(3)

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

this one was perl v5.24.1, dated 2016-07-07 — so it's been serving cunt since 2016, periodt. 👑🌈