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nwdiag

NWDIAG(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NWDIAG(1)

NAME

       nwdiag - generate network-diagram image file from spec-text file.

SYNOPSIS

       nwdiag [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nwdiag commands.

       nwdiag 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.

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

       --version
	      show program's version number 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://blockdiag.com/en/nwdiag/

AUTHOR

       nwdiag 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).

								   June 11, 2011							 NWDIAG(1)

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