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-.TH XScreenSaver 1 "30-Oct-99" "X Version 11"
+.TH XScreenSaver 1 "5-May-2004" "X Version 11"
.SH NAME
phosphor - simulates an old terminal with long-sustain phosphor
.SH SYNOPSIS
phosphor -program 'ping localhost'
phosphor -program 'ps -e'
phosphor -program 'od -txC -w6 /dev/random'
+phosphor -program 'cat /dev/random'
phosphor -scale 2 -geom =1280x1024 -program 'top'
phosphor -scale 4 -geom =1280x1024 \\
-program 'mtr www.kernel.org'
phosphor -scale 5 -geom =1280x1024 \\
-program 'xemacs -nw -q --eval "(hanoi 5)"'
.EE
+If you have the
+.BR festival (1)
+text-to-speech system installed, you can have it read the screen as
+phosphor prints it:
+.EX
+phosphor -program \\
+ 'xscreensaver-text | tee /dev/stderr | festival --tts'
+.EE
You can also use \fIphosphor\fP as a lo-fi replacement for the
.BR xterm (1)
and
to inform the sub-process of the type of terminal emulation.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR xscreensaver (1),
+.BR xscreensaver-text (1),
.BR fortune (1),
.BR apple2 (1),
.BR starwars (1),