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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ascommand
ASCOMMAND(1x) ASCOMMAND(1x)
NAME
ascommand - send commands to AfterStep
SYNOPSIS
ascommand [-f file] [-h] [-i] [-v] [-w id] [--] [command]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ascommand command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page.
ascommand is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.
OPTIONS
-f --file
input commands from file (- means stdin)
-h --help
this help
-i --interactive starts interactive communication with AfterStep
-v --version
print version information
-w --window-id
window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)
-- end parsing of command line options
command
command to send to AfterStep
If -f - or -i is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input, and print results on standard output. -i is noisier than -f
-.
SEE ALSO
afterstep(1x).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>, using help2man(1) program, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
used by others).
May 28th, 2006 ASCOMMAND(1x)