.TH AXWRAPPER 8 "26 July 2017" Linux "Linux System Managers Manual"
.SH NAME
axwrapper \- Run non-ax.25-aware programs from ax25d
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B axwrapper [ -p paclen ] server-program argv[0] ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B  Axwrapper
first creates a pipe and then forks and execs the program <server-program> with
arguments given at the axwrapper command line.  The argv[0] argument is
mandatory; further arguments are optional.  The parent process then sits
and waits for any I/O to and from the user and converts any carriage return
characters from the user to line feeds and any line feeds from the program to
carriage returns. This is useful when starting non-AX.25-aware programs from
ax25d.
.SH OPTIONS
.BI "\-c paclen"
.IP
Specify a the size of the output buffer.  The default length is 256 bytes.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ax25 (8)
.BR ax25.conf (5)
.SH AUTHOR
Tomi Manninen OH2BNS <oh2bns@sral.fi>