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[xscreensaver] / hacks / memscroller.man

diff --git a/hacks/memscroller.man b/hacks/memscroller.man
index c4732a3da65424ef1b49dfeb924b0684fdf01e0e..948c43d8252b93e3580e105f051d293dd56c694f 100644 (file)
--- 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