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NAME

       woof - A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

SYNOPSIS

       woof [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       woof  is  a tool to copy files between hosts. It can serve a specified file on HTTP,just for a given number of times, and then shutdown. It
       can be easily used to share files across the computers on a net, and given that the other ends should have just a  browser,  it	can  share
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OPTIONS

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       -h     Show summary of options.

       -i <ip_addr>
	      IP address to share the file

       -p <port>
	      Port to be used to share the file

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