-.TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
+.\" -*-nroff-*-
+.TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
.SH NAME
xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
.SH SYNOPSIS
+.ll +5i
.B xtell
.RB [ \-d
.IR display ]
.RB [ \-a
.IR atom ]
.RB [ \-m
-.IR message ]
+.IR msg ]
+.RI [ \c
+.IB atom : msg \c
+]
+.ll -5i
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xtell
program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular
value. This is primarily useful for communicating with
.BR xwait (1).
-.SS OPTIONS
+.SS Options
.TP 5
.BI "\-d, \-\-display " display
Attempt to connect to
.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, \-\-msg " message
+.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " msg
Sets
.B xtell
to set the given property to
-.IR message .
-The default message to set is
+.IR msg .
+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).