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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. |