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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.