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.TH BEER 1 "7 December 2006" "0.3" "Gerstensaft"
.SH NAME
beer \- Graphical frontend to SAFT
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B beer
.RI [ " gtk-options " ]
.RI [ " \-v " | " \-h " ]
.RI [ " \-m " | " \-r " | " \-s " ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Gerstensaft is an easy to use graphical frontend to the SAFT protocol,
i.e.
.BR sendfile (1),
.BR sendmsg (1)
and
.BR receive (1).
It features sending messages, files and directories, adding comments,
and provides a history of recipients.  Since
.BR sendfile (1),
.BR sendmsg (1)
and
.BR receive (1)    
are called for real operations you'll need to have these programs
installed as well.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h
Display help and exit.
.TP
.B \-m
Run in message mode.
.TP
.B \-r
Run in receive mode.
.TP
.B \-s
Run in send mode.
.TP
.B \-v
Display version and exit.
.SH NAMING
Gerstensaft is German and means barley juice translated word by word.
So in short it's nothing less than simply beer, hence the name of the
binary.  Although beer is Bier.
.SH AUTHOR
Gerstensaft has been developed by Joey Schulze
<joey@infodrom.org>.  It uses the GIMP Toolkit (Gtk) to draw its
user interface.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I ~/.gerstensaft/history
Contains the stored history list of recipients.
.TP
.I ~/.gerstensaft/config
Contains additional configuration
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR sendfile (1),
.BR sendmsg (1),
.BR receive (1),
.br
.RB "Homepage: <" http://www.infodrom.org/projects/gerstensaft/ >.