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seqdiag

SEQDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							SEQDIAG(1)

NAME

       seqdiag - generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file.

SYNOPSIS

       seqdiag [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the seqdiag commands.

       seqdiag is generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

       --version
	      show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -a, --antialias
	      Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter

       -c FILE, --config=FILE
	      read configurations from FILE

       -o FILE
	      write diagram to FILE

       -f FONT, --font=FONT
	      use FONT to draw diagram

       -T TYPE
	      Output diagram as TYPE format

SEE ALSO


       The programs are documented fully by
       http://tk0miya.bitbucket.org/seqdiag/build/html/index.html

AUTHOR

       seqdiag was written by Takeshi Komiya <i.tkomiya@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Kouhei Maeda <mkouhei@palmtb.net>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								   May 21, 2011 							SEQDIAG(1)