2 .TH xcatch 1 "15 December 1998" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
4 xcatch \- catch input and trap it in a window
16 program watches an input file descriptor (usually a pipe) and displays
17 data from it in a GTK window. The window is displayed only when data is
18 first read from the descriptor; if no data ever arrives, the window is
19 not created. If a file is specified using the
21 option, it is read; otherwise, if a
23 is specified, it is executed with standard output and standard error
28 reads from its own standard input.
31 .BI "\-\-display " display
32 Create the window on the named
35 .BI "\-f, \-\-file " file
38 instead of standard output.
40 .BI "\-F, \-\-font " font
41 Display output text in
43 rather than GTK's default (Helvetica).
45 Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).