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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
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2 | .TH xcatch 1 "15 December 1998" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys" |
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3 | .SH NAME |
4 | xcatch \- catch input and trap it in a window |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
6 | .B xcatch |
7 | .RB [ \-f |
8 | .IR file ] |
9 | .RB [ \-F |
10 | .IR font ] |
11 | .RI [ command |
12 | .RI [ args ]...] |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
14 | The |
15 | .B xcatch |
16 | program watches an input file descriptor (usually a pipe) and displays |
17 | data from it in a GTK window. The window is displayed only when data is |
18 | first read from the descriptor; if no data ever arrives, the window is |
19 | not created. If a file is specified using the |
20 | .B \-f |
21 | option, it is read; otherwise, if a |
22 | .I command |
23 | is specified, it is executed with standard output and standard error |
24 | redirected to |
25 | .BR xcatch ; |
26 | otherwise, |
27 | .B xcatch |
28 | reads from its own standard input. |
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29 | .SS Options |
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30 | .TP |
31 | .BI "\-\-display " display |
32 | Create the window on the named |
33 | .IR display . |
34 | .TP |
35 | .BI "\-f, \-\-file " file |
36 | Read data from |
37 | .I file |
38 | instead of standard output. |
39 | .TP |
40 | .BI "\-F, \-\-font " font |
41 | Display output text in |
42 | .I font |
43 | rather than GTK's default (Helvetica). |
44 | .SH AUTHOR |
45 | Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org). |
46 | .SH BUGS |
47 | None currently known. |