blow(1)

BLOW(1) General Commands Manual BLOW(1)

NAME

blow - write forever on stdout

SYNOPSIS

blow

DESCRIPTION

Blow writes meaningless ascii data to stdout. Blow was written to be used with xinetd in network throughput testing. A client connecting via TCP to the port designated with blow as its server will receive a constant stream of data, sent as fast as the network will allow, up to the capacity of the sending host to transmit data, and provided that other processes' use of machine resources do not interfere.

SEE ALSO

xinetd(1), ettcp(1), suck(1)

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