cu(1)

Specify the transmission speed (110, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 3600, 4800, 7200, 9600, 19200). The default value is 300.

Specify a device name to use as the communication line. This can be used to override searching for the first available line having the right speed. When the -l option is used without the -s option, the speed of a line is obtained from file /etc/uucp/Devices. When the -l and -s options are used simultaneously, cu searches /etc/uucp/Devices to determine whether the requested speed for the requested line is available. If so, the connection is made at the requested speed; otherwise, an error message is printed and the call is not made. The specified device is usually a directly connected asynchronous line (such as /dev/ttyapb). In this case, a telephone number is not required, but the string dir can be used to specify that a dialer is not required. If the specified device is associated with an auto-dialer, a telephone number must be provided.

Emulate local echo, supporting calls to other computer systems that expect terminals to be set to half-duplex mode.

Use ENQ/ACK handshake (remote system sends ENQ, cu sends ACK.)

Used when dialing an ASCII terminal that has been set to auto-answer. Appropriate mapping of carriage-return to carriage-return-line-feed pairs is set.

Print diagnostic traces. level is a number from 0-9, where higher levels produce more detail in the diagnostic messages.

(UNIX Standard only, see standards(5).) Print diagnostic traces. The level is always 9.

Generate even (odd) parity for data sent to the remote.

Specify a direct line that has modem controls. Modem controls are ignored by cu.

Cause the telephone number that cu dials to be requested interactively from the user rather than taking it from the command line.

When using an automatic dialer, telno is the telephone number, with equal signs for secondary dial tone or minus signs for delays appropriately placed in the telno string.

A UUCP system name can be used instead of a telephone number (see uucp(1)); in this case, cu obtains an appropriate direct line or telephone number from /etc/uucp/Systems (including appropriate baud rate). cu dials each telephone number or direct line for systemname in the Systems file until a connection is made or all the entries are tried.

Using dir ensures that cu uses the line specified by the -l option.

Terminate the conversation. On hard-wired lines, ~. sends several EOF characters to log out the session, whereas ~.. suppresses the EOF sequence. In general the remote hard-wired machine is unaware of the disconnect if ~.. is used. On dial-up connections, ~. and ~.. do not differ.

Escape to an interactive shell on the local system.

Run cmd on the local system (via sh -c).

Similar to ~! but kill the receive process, restarting it upon return from the shell. This is useful for invoking sub-processes that read from the communication line where the receive process would otherwise compete for input.

Run cmd on the local system (via sh -c) and kill the receive process, restarting it later.

Pipe incoming data from the remote system through the standard input to cmd on the local system. To terminate, reset with either a ~& or ~| command.

Resets the receive process following a ~|cmd command.

Run cmd locally and send its output to the remote system.

Change the directory on the local system. Note: ~!cd causes the command to be run by a sub-shell, causing a return to the current directory upon completion.

Copy file remote_source_file from the remote system to file local_destination_file on the local system. If local_destination_file is not specified, the remote_source_file argument is used in both places.

Copy file local_source_file on local system to file remote_destination_file on remote system. If remote_destination_file is not specified, the local_source_file argument is used in both places.

Send the line ~ ... to the remote system. If you use cu on the remote system to access a third remote system, send ~~. to cause the second remote cu to exit.

Transmit a BREAK to the remote system.

Toggle between DC3/DC1 input control protocol and no input control. This is useful if the remote system does not respond properly to the DC3 and DC1 characters.

Send the contents of the local file to the remote system using prompt handshaking. The specified file is read one line at a time, and each line is sent to the remote system when the prompt sequence is received. If no prompt is received by the time the prompt timeout occurs, the line is sent anyway. If the timeout is set to 0 seconds, or if the first character in the prompt sequence is a null character (^@), the handshake always appears to be satisfied immediately, regardless of whether or not the remote system generates a prompt. This capability is intended mainly to facilitate transfer of ASCII files from HP-UX to an HP 3000 system running MPE. This is usually accomplished by running the MPE FCOPY utility and giving the command from=;to=destfile;new and then running the cu input diversion to send the file to FCOPY which saves it in destfile. This facility might be useful with other systems also, such as an HP 1000 running RTE.

Specify the number of seconds to wait for a prompt before giving up. The default is 2 seconds. Specifying a timeout of 0 seconds disables handshaking; that is, handshake appears to complete immediately.

Set the handshake prompt to the characters xy. The default is DC1. The prompt can be any one or two characters. To specify a control character for x or y, use the Ctrl-X form where a circumflex (ASCII 94) precedes the character, as in ^X. A null character can be specified with ^@. (A null first character in the prompt implies a "null" prompt, which always appears to be satisfied.) A circumflex is specified by ^^.

Divert output from the remote system to the specified file until another ~%> command is given. When an output diversion is active, typing ~%> terminates it, whereas ~%> anotherfile terminates it and begins a new one. The output diversion remains active through a ~& subshell, but unpredictable results can occur if input/output diversions are intermixed with ~%take or ~%put. The ~%>> command appends to the named file. Note that these commands, which are interpreted by the transmit process, are unrelated to the ~> commands described below, which are interpreted by the receive process.

Suspend the cu session. susp is the suspend character set in the terminal when cu was invoked (usually ^Z — see stty(1)). As in all other lines starting with tilde, a ~susp line must be terminated by pressing Return.