From 6bc4b7d909d85e59c9672dff6d495a798ef509c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexey Ozeritskiy <aozeritsky@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2024 17:17:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

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 ### Running the Application
-- Start the servers: 
-  ```
-  ./server --id 1 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
-  ./server --id 2 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
-  ./server --id 3 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
-  ```
-- Run the client (the client can now only work with the leader): 
-  ```
-  ./client --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1
-  ```
+
+This is a simple application designed to demonstrate log replication in the Raft consensus algorithm. 
+
+To start the application, launch the servers with the following commands:
+```
+./server --id 1 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
+./server --id 2 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
+./server --id 3 --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1 --node 127.0.0.1:8002:2 --node 127.0.0.1:8003:3
+```
+
+To interact with the system, run the client as follows:
+```
+./client --node 127.0.0.1:8001:1
+```
+The client expects an input string to be added to the distributed log. If the input string starts with an underscore (`_`), it should be followed by a number (e.g., `_3`). In this case, the client will attempt to read the log entry at the specified number.