debian man page for bb

BB(1)							      General Commands Manual							     BB(1)

NAME
       bb - an ASCII-art demo

SYNOPSIS
       bb [options]

DESCRIPTION
       bb is a high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text terminal.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options are included below.  For a complete description type bb -help.

       -help  Show summary of options.

       -loop  Play demo in infinite loop.

       -driver
	      Select driver. Available drivers: linux, slang, X11, stdout, stderr.

       -kbddriver
	      Select keyboard driver. Available drivers: slang, X11, stdin.

       -mousedriver
	      Select mouse driver. Available drivers: X11, gpm, dos.

       -width Set width.

       -height
	      Set height.

       -minwidth
	      Set minimum width.

       -minheight
	      Set minimum height.

       -maxwidth
	      Set maximum width.

       -maxheight
	      Set maximum height.

       -recwidth
	      Set recommended width.

       -recheight
	      Set recommended height.

       -dim   Enable usage of dim (half bright) attribute.

       -bold  Enable usage of bold (double bright) attribute.

       -reverse
	      Enable usage of reverse attribute.

       -normal
	      Enable usage of normal attribute.

       -boldfont
	      Enable usage of boldfont attribute.

       -no<attr>
	      Disable attribute (i.e -nobold).

       -extended
	      Use all 256 characters.

       -eight Use eight bit ASCII.

       -font <font>
	      Select  font.  This  option  is  used  on hardware where aalib is unable to determine the current font. Available fonts: vga8, vga9,
	      mda14, vga14, X8x13, X8x16, X8x13bold, vgagl8, line.

       -inverse
	      Enable inverse rendering.

       -noinverse
	      Disable inverse rendering.

       -bright <val>
	      Set brightness (0-255).

       -contrast <val>
	      Set contrast (0-255).

       -gamma <val>
	      Set gamma correction value (0-1).

       -nodither
	      Disable dithering.

       -floyd_steinberg
	      Floyd-Steinberg dithering.

       -error_distribution
	      Error distribution dithering.

       -random <val>
	      Set random dithering value (0-inf).

       -dimmul <val>
	      Multiply factor for dim attribute (5.3).

       -boldmul <val>
	      Multiply factor for bold attribute (2.7).

BUGS
       Please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>.

LICENCE
       bb is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

SEE ALSO
       aafire(1), aainfo(1), aasavefont(1), aatest(1), aview(1), asciiview(1), aaflip(1), aa3d(1), xaos(6), aatv(1).

AUTHOR
       Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>

       This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								 December 16, 2001							     BB(1)