2 .TH xcatch 1 "15 December 1998" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
4 xcatch \- catch input and trap it in a window
17 program watches an input file descriptor (usually a pipe) and displays
18 data from it in a GTK window. The window is displayed only when data is
19 first read from the descriptor; if no data ever arrives, the window is
20 not created. If a file is specified using the
22 option, it is read; otherwise, if a
24 is specified, it is executed with standard output and standard error
29 reads from its own standard input.
43 to collect the exit status of the
45 and (a) report it in its window, and (b) provide it (or a version of it)
46 as its own exit status for the caller to check. It also enables
48 to put the command line in its title bar.
51 .BI "\-F, \-\-font " font
52 Display output text in
54 rather than GTK's default.
56 .BI "\-f, \-\-file " file
59 instead of standard output.
65 Mark Wooding (mdw@distorted.org.uk).