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.TH SHOES 1 "2008-01-22" "Curious (0.r396)" "Shoes"
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.SH NAME
shoes \- interpreter for Ruby files that use the Shoes library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shoes
.RI [ options ] " (app.rb or app.shy)"
.SH DESCRIPTION
Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit for making simple
graphical applications written in Ruby.  The
.B shoes
command is used to run these applications.  If no application is given on the
command line, a file browser will be opened to let you pick one.  Supported
file types are
.IR .rb ,
for plain Ruby files; or
.IR .shy ,
for compressed Shoes YAML archives.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`--').
A summary of the options supported by
.B shoes
is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-m, \-\-manual
Open the built-in manual.
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-shy DIRECTORY
Compress a directory into a Shoes YAML (SHY) archive.
.SH SEE ALSO
The built-in manual can be read by running
.BR "shoes -m" .
.PP
More information can be found on the Shoes website, at
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/.
.SH AUTHOR
Shoes was written by why the lucky stiff <why@whytheluckystiff.net>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Bram Senders <bram@luon.net>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).