FILE2DGR(1)

📦 version 3.2.1, in ubuntu jammy

💖 FILE2DGR 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for file2dgr — a DGR transmission test program, living in the DGR executables section of the manual (that's section 1, iykyk). she's a little chaotic, she's a little old-school, but she gets the job done and honestly? iconic. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

file2dgr remoteHostName fileName [nbrOfCycles]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: file2dgr uses DGR to yeet nbrOfCycles copies of the text inside the file named fileName over to the dgr2file process running on the computer identified by remoteHostName. it's giving pen pal, but make it datagrams. 💌

if you don't specify nbrOfCycles — or if you pass something less than 1 — it lowkey just defaults to 1. no drama, one copy, we move.

after sending all the lines of the file, file2dgr sends a datagram containing an EOF string, and the EOF string is literally the ASCII text:

*** End of the file ***

then she reopens the file and starts transmitting the next copy. like, the whole thing again. dedication. 🫶

and when every single copy of the file has been sent? she prints a performance report for you, bestie, because she's proud of herself:

Bytes sent = I<byteCount>, usec elapsed = I<elapsedTime>.

Sending I<dataRate> bits per second.

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

  • "0" — file2dgr has terminated.

🎀 FILES 🎀

No configuration files are needed. not a single one. unbothered, unconfigured, thriving. ✨

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

No environment variables apply. nothing to export, nothing to source, nothing to forget to set. we love a low-maintenance queen. 💅

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

so when things go sideways, the diagnostic messages produced by file2dgr get written to the ION log file ion.log. that's where the receipts live, bestie. go read them.

  • Can't open dgr service. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.
  • Can't open input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun.
  • Can't acquire DGR working memory. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.
  • Can't reopen input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun.
  • Can't read from input file Operating system error. Check errtext, correct problem, and rerun.
  • dgr_send failed. ION system error. Check for earlier diagnostic messages describing the cause of the error; correct problem and rerun.

🙈 BUGS 🙈

found a bug? not me manifesting one, but like, if it happens — report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu> 🍓

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no notes, no cap, she ate. 💜

this page came to you courtesy of perl v5.24.1, dated 2016-07-07 — a genuine vintage artifact, and we're obsessed with her. 🧚✨

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