X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fmemscroller.man;h=0df38b8d718803bdd200930806aa4aa8eeff73c5;hp=c4732a3da65424ef1b49dfeb924b0684fdf01e0e;hb=bc7b7a8eb122206d239ec0e693676bcce31be1aa;hpb=ffd8c0873576a9e3065696a624dce6b766b77062 diff --git a/hacks/memscroller.man b/hacks/memscroller.man index c4732a3d..0df38b8d 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. @@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ 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.