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