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- ROBOTROFF(1) Amiga User's Manual ROBOTROFF(1)
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-
- NAME
- robotroff - insidious display hack
-
- SYNOPSIS
- robotroff [-h[n]] [-l[n]] [-p[n]] [-i] [-kill]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Robotroff is yet another display hack from the warped mind
- of Leo Schwab.
-
- Upon invocation, robotroff installs itself in the background
- and returns your CLI prompt. It can also be run from the
- WorkBench. Robotroff continues to run until killed off.
- Robotroff consumes very little CPU, even when active, so it
- may be left running until a reset or power-off.
-
- Subsequent invocations of robotroff will attempt to locate
- the original invocation, and pass information to it. Thus,
- it is possible to modify the operating parameters of the
- program while it runs in the background.
-
- The following options are supported:
-
- -h[n] Sets the "highwater" time delay length. The amount
- of time between activity will be no longer than n
- seconds. If n is not supplied, or is negative or
- zero, a default of two minutes will be used.
-
- -l[n] Sets the "lowater" time delay length. The amount
- of time between activity will be no shorter than n
- seconds. If n is not supplied, or is negative or
- zero, a default of thirty seconds will be used.
-
- -p[n] Sets the task priority. This permits the user to
- make robotroff consume even less CPU. If n is
- absent, zero is assumed.
-
- -i Force activity to occur right now (immediately).
-
- -kill Kills off the original robotroff invocation.
- Robotroff will announce that it has been terminated,
- then exit, freeing all allocated resources. This
- option is meaningless and therefore ignored if
- supplied when first running robotroff.
-
- Malformed or unrecognized arguments are silently ignored.
-
- EXAMPLES
- robotroff Starts background robotroff process.
- robotroff -i Makes background process active immediately.
- robotroff -h10 -l5 Reconfigures operating parameters.
- robotroff -p-2 Sets priority to -2.
- robotroff -kill Terminates background process.
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- AUTHOR
- Leo L. Schwab
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- BUGS
- Probably. Report them to the author as they are encountered.
- Note that lack of a desired feature is not considered a bug.
-