X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=web%2Fmanual.m4;h=e665ea7bf99f183ea0a1479386f580cba7feb113;hp=7eecdbb31ad09169666f4d2e353f215432e12961;hb=f2edf225c74a6cc77f7eb1a2984c1d39030a12d5;hpb=f48194d3ff2a3983f21cab1553fbe29529f2e790 diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4 index 7eecdbb3..e665ea7b 100644 --- a/web/manual.m4 +++ b/web/manual.m4 @@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ All connections between para_server and para_client are encrypted with a symmetric RC4 session key. For each user of paraslash you must create a public/secret RSA key pair for authentication. +If para_client is started without non-option arguments, an interactive +session (shell) is started. Command history and command completion are +supported through libreadline. *para_audiod* @@ -135,7 +138,8 @@ socket credentials, if available. The client program which talks to para_audiod. Used to control para_audiod, to receive status info, or to grab the stream at any -point of the decoding process. +point of the decoding process. Like para_client, para_audioc supports +interactive sessions on systems with libreadline. *para_recv* @@ -266,6 +270,10 @@ Optional: libao). Needed to build the ao writer (ESD, PulseAudio,...). Debian package: libao-dev. + - XREFERENCE(http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html, + GNU Readline). If this library (libreadline-dev) is installed, + para_client and para_audioc support interactive sessions. + Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -486,7 +494,7 @@ including ssh and gpg. An RSA key consists in fact of two keys, called the public key and the private key. A message can be encrypted with either key and only the counterpart of that key can decrypt the message. While RSA can be used for both signing and encrypting -a message, paraslash only uses RSA only for the latter purpose. The +a message, paraslash uses RSA only for the latter purpose. The RSA public key encryption and signatures algorithms are defined in detail in RFC 2437.