X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fmemscroller.man;h=948c43d8252b93e3580e105f051d293dd56c694f;hb=de460e831dc8578acfa8b72251ab9346c99c1f96;hp=c4732a3da65424ef1b49dfeb924b0684fdf01e0e;hpb=ffd8c0873576a9e3065696a624dce6b766b77062;p=xscreensaver diff --git a/hacks/memscroller.man b/hacks/memscroller.man index c4732a3d..948c43d8 100644 --- a/hacks/memscroller.man +++ b/hacks/memscroller.man @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ memscroller - scrolls a dump of its own RAM across the screen [\-font \fIfont\fP] [\-delay \fIint\fP] [\-mono | -color] -[\-ram | -random] +[\-ram | -random | \-filename \fIfile\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION The \fImemscroller\fP program scrolls a dump of its own process memory across the screen in three windows at three different rates. @@ -41,9 +41,15 @@ Read from the process's address space. This is the default. .B \-random Instead of reading from memory, generate random numbers. .TP 8 +.B \-filename \fIfile\fP +Instead of reading from memory, read from the given file until EOF, then +re-open it. If you have permission, /dev/mem is an interesting choice here. +(Note that /dev/null won't ever display anything, because it returns EOF +without ever returning any data.) +.TP 8 .B \-delay \fImicroseconds\fP How much of a delay should be introduced between steps of the animation. -Default 100000, or about 1/10th second. +Default 10000. .SH ENVIRONMENT .PP .TP 8