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kover

kover(1)							   User Commands							  kover(1)

NAME

       kover - CD Cover printer

SYNOPSIS

       kover [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       Kover is an easy to use WYSIWYG CD cover printer with CDDB support.

   Generic options:
       --help Show help about options

       --help-qt
	      Show Qt specific options

       --help-kde
	      Show KDE specific options

       --help-all
	      Show all options

       --author
	      Show author information

       -v, --version
	      Show version information

       --license
	      Show license information

       --     End of options

OPTIONS

       --advise
	      Help me now!

       --debug
	      Enable debug output.

   Arguments:
       file   File to load

AVAILABILITY

       kover can be found at http://lisas.de/kover/.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <adrian@lisas.de>.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was created newly by Rene Engelhard <mail@rene-engelhard.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution, because the original
       package does not have one.

       The software is written by Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de>. The original kover was written by Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@fischlustig.de>.

kover 4 							    March 2003								  kover(1)