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+.\" -*-nroff-*-
 .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
 .SH NAME
 xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
+.ll +5i
 .B xtell
 .RB [ \-d
 .IR display ]
@@ -9,6 +11,10 @@ xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
 .IR atom ]
 .RB [ \-m
 .IR message ]
+.RI [ \c
+.IB atom : msg , msg \c
+\&...]
+.ll -5i
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .B xtell
@@ -17,25 +23,36 @@ value.  This is primarily useful for communicating with
 .BR xwait (1).
 .SS OPTIONS
 .TP 5
-.BI "\-d " display
+.BI "\-d, \-\-display " display
 Attempt to connect to
 .I display
 rather than the display named in the usual environment variable.
 .TP 5
-.BI "\-a " atom
+.BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom
 Sets
 .B xtell
 to to set the property named
 .IR atom .
-The default property to set to is
-.BR XWAIT_PROPERTY .
+Use of this option is deprecated.
 .TP 5
-.BI "\-m " message
+.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message
 Sets
 .B xtell
 to set the given property to
 .IR message .
-The default message to set is
+Use of this option is deprecated.
+.PP
+The
+.B \-a
+and
+.B \-m
+options are deprecated, though retained for compatibility reasons.  It's
+recommended that you use the non-option specification instead.
+.PP
+The argument specifies an atom name and a message string to set.  The
+default, if no atom or message is given, is to set
+.B XWAIT_PROPERTY
+to the value
 .BR XWAIT_MESSAGE .
 .SH AUTHOR
 Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).