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.TH ASCOMMAND 1x "May 28th, 2006"
.SH NAME
ascommand \- send commands to AfterStep
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ascommand 
.RI [\-f " file" ] 
.RI [\-h] 
.RI [\-i] 
.RI [\-v] 
.RI [\-w " id" ] 
.RI [\-\-] 
.RI [ command ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B ascommand
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B ascommand 
is a program, which sends commands to the AfterStep Window Manager.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fB\-\-file\fR
input commands from file (\- means stdin)
.TP
\fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR
this help
.HP
\fB\-i\fR \fB\-\-interactive\fR starts interactive communication with AfterStep
.TP
\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
print version information
.TP
\fB\-w\fR \fB\-\-window\-id\fR
window id to send to AfterStep (in hex)
.TP
\fB\-\-\fR
end parsing of command line options
.TP
command
command to send to AfterStep
.PP
If \fB\-f\fR \- or \fB\-i\fR is specified, ascommand will read commands from standard input,
and print results on standard output.  \fB\-i\fR is noisier than \fB\-f\fR \-.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR afterstep (1x).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>,
using
.BR help2man (1)
program,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).