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Commit patch from PR 22539 to document adding ".SYS" to filenames. 

New sentence, new line. Change date. Expand "MOP" as Maintenance
Operations Protocol for permuted index.
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.\" $NetBSD: mopd.8,v 1.8 2002/11/05 14:18:04 thorpej Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mopd.8,v 1.9 2004/01/23 20:46:38 fair Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993-96 Mats O Jansson. All rights reserved.
.\"
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd September 24, 1995
.Dd January 23, 2004
.Dt MOPD 8
.Sh NAME
.Nm mopd
.Nd MOP Loader Daemon
.Nd Maintenance Operations Protocol (MOP) Loader Daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl adf
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.Op Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
services MOP Load requests on the Ethernet connected to
services
.Tn DEC
Maintenance Operations Protocol
.Pq Tn MOP
Load requests on the Ethernet connected to
.Ar interface
or all interfaces if
.Sq Fl a
is given.
.Fl a
option is given.
.Pp
In a load request received by
.Nm
a filename can be given. This is the normal case for e.g. terminal servers.
If a filename isn't given
a filename can be given by the client.
This is the normal case for terminal servers.
If a filename isn't in the client load request
.Nm
must know what image to load.
.Pp
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and it might be a soft link to another file.
.Pp
.Nm
supports two kinds of files. The first type that is check is if the file is
in
supports two kinds of files.
The first type that is check is if the file is in
.Xr a.out 5
format. If not, a couple of Digital's formats are checked.
format.
If not, a couple of Digital's formats are checked.
.Pp
In normal operation,
.Nm
forks a copy of itself and runs in
the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
forks a copy of itself and runs in the background.
Anomalies and errors are reported via
.Xr syslog 3 .
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.
If
.Sq Fl a
.Fl a
is omitted, an interface must be specified.
.It Fl d
Run in debug mode, with all the output to stdout. The process will run in
the foreground.
Run in debug mode, with all the output to stdout.
The process will run in the foreground.
.It Fl f
Run in the foreground.
.It Fl s
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.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It Pa /tftpboot/mop
.El
.Sh NOTES
.Nm
automatically appends an upper case
.Pa .SYS
to the filename provided by the client.
The typical client sends the the requested file name in upper case.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mopchk 1 ,
.Xr mopcopy 1 ,