dial.1 (545B)
1 .TH DIAL 1 2 .SH NAME 3 dial \- connect to a remote service 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B dial 6 [ 7 .B -e 8 ] 9 .I addr 10 .SH DESCRIPTION 11 .I Dial 12 connects to the network address 13 .I addr 14 (see 15 .MR dial (3) ) 16 and then copies data from the connection to standard output, 17 and from standard input to the connection. 18 .PP 19 By default, 20 .I dial 21 exits when end of file is reached on standard input or on the network connection. 22 The 23 .B -e 24 flag causes 25 .I dial 26 to exit only in response to end of file on the network connection. 27 .SH SOURCE 28 .B \*9/src/cmd/dial.c 29 .SH SEE ALSO 30 .MR dial (3)