ascommand.pl(1x)

ascommand.pl1x

Send commands to afterstep

Usage

ascommand.pl [-f file] [-h] [-i] [-v] [-w id] [--] [command]

$Id: ascommand.pl.1x,v 1.2 2005/02/20 18:37:30 robert Exp $

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ascommand.pl command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ascommand.pl is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.

Options

-f --file

input commands from file (- means stdin)

-h --help

this help

-i --interactive starts interactive communication with AfterStep

-v --version

print version information

-w --window-id

window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)

--

end parsing of command line options

command

command to send to AfterStep

If -f - or -i is specified, ascommand.pl will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output. -i is noisier than -f -.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1

-- since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --file since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --version since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --window-id since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -f since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -w since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <[email protected]>, using help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From afterstep 2.00.04-3 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.