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.

LCM                                                2007-12-13                                      lcm_source(1)