.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH GNUAIS 1 "August 07, 2013" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME gnuais \- GNU Automatic Identification System receiver .SH SYNOPSIS .B gnuais .RI [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B gnuais command. .PP \fBgnuais\fP is a tool for demodulating and decoding AIS messages using the line/mic input of the sound card. Connect the discriminator output of a VHF receiver tuned to either 161.975 MHz or 162.025 MHz to the line/mic input. Then run gnuais with no options or with some of the options described below. .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. .SH OPTIONS A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-c Specify config file to use. If not specified, a gnuais.conf file in the current directory is searched for, if not found, ~/.config/gnuais/config is used. .TP .B \-f Runs .B gnuais in the background. .TP .B \-h Shows the short command use info. .TP .B \-l Runs with raw audio data from file .TP .B \-s Saves raw audio data to file .TP .B \-e Log level: INFO, DEBUG, NOTICE, WARNING, ERR, CRIT, ALERT, EMERG .TP .B \-o Log destination: none, file, stderr, syslog. .TP .B \-r Log directory .TP .B \-n Name of the log .SH SEE ALSO .BR gnuaisgui (1), .br .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Ruben Undheim , for the Debian project (and may be used by others).