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.TH xcatch 1 "15 December 1998" "Edgeware tools"
.SH NAME
xcatch \- catch input and trap it in a window
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xcatch
.RB [ \-f
.IR file ]
.RB [ \-F
.IR font ]
.RI [ command
.RI [ args ]...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xcatch
program watches an input file descriptor (usually a pipe) and displays
data from it in a GTK window.  The window is displayed only when data is
first read from the descriptor; if no data ever arrives, the window is
not created.  If a file is specified using the
.B \-f
option, it is read; otherwise, if a
.I command
is specified, it is executed with standard output and standard error
redirected to
.BR xcatch ;
otherwise,
.B xcatch
reads from its own standard input.
.SS Options
.TP
.BI "\-\-display " display
Create the window on the named
.IR display .
.TP
.BI "\-f, \-\-file " file
Read data from
.I file
instead of standard output.
.TP
.BI "\-F, \-\-font " font
Display output text in 
.I font
rather than GTK's default (Helvetica).
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).
.SH BUGS
None currently known.