NAME

       lcm_source - Transmit random messages over the LC Communications library

SYNOPSIS

       lcm_source [options]

DESCRIPTION

       lcm_source  is  a  utility  for  testing  the  Lightweight  Communications  library  (LC).
       lcm_source transmits random messages on  either  a  specified  LC  channel  or  random  LC
       channels.  Messages can be randomly sized, or a specified fixed size.

OPTIONS

       The following options are provided by lcm_source:

       -m CHAN
              Transmits messages on channel CHAN (default: random channels)

       -p DELAY
              Wait DELAY microseconds between transmissions (default: 10000)

       -s SIZE
              Transmit  packets  of  size  SIZE  bytes.  If SIZE is 0 (default), then packets are
              randomly sized between 1 and 65,000 bytes

       -v     verbose mode.  Prints a summary of each packet

       -h     Prints this help text and exits.

COPYRIGHT

       lcm-source is part of  the  Lightweight  Communications  and  Marshalling  (LCM)  project.
       Permission  is  granted  to  copy,  distribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
       2.1  of  the  License, or (at your option) any later version.  See the file COPYING in the
       LCM distribution for more details regarding distribution.

       LCM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without
       even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
       GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.  You should have received  a  copy  of
       the  GNU  Lesser General Public License along with LCM; if not, write to the Free Software
       Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Albert Huang.