Annotation of researchv9/jtools/man/man1/blitblt.1, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .TH BLITBLT 1
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_other
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: blitblt \- print hard copy of screen image
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B blitblt
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B -p
        !             9: .I command
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            12: .I Blitblt
        !            13: copies part or all of a 
        !            14: .IR suntools (1)
        !            15: or
        !            16: .IR X (1)
        !            17: screen into a file
        !            18: or down a pipe to a printer daemon.
        !            19: The program is menu-driven off button 3 as follows:
        !            20: .nr xx \w'\f5sweep rectangle\f1'u+2n/1n
        !            21: .TP \n(xx
        !            22: .B choose window
        !            23: A bull's eye cursor appears.
        !            24: Clicking button 3 with the cursor inside a window
        !            25: selects it for subsequent manipulation.
        !            26: .TP
        !            27: .B window interior
        !            28: As above, but the border surrounding the window is not included.
        !            29: .TP
        !            30: .B reverse video
        !            31: The video is inverted in the selected window or rectangle.
        !            32: .TP
        !            33: .B sweep rectangle
        !            34: A rectangle cursor appears.  The rectangle swept out on button 3
        !            35: becomes the selected area.
        !            36: .TP
        !            37: .B whole screen
        !            38: The entire screen, including border areas is selected.
        !            39: .TP
        !            40: .B write file
        !            41: The portion of the screen previously selected and prepared is written
        !            42: into a file or pipe. The filename is typed in answer to a prompt appearing
        !            43: at the bottom of the
        !            44: .I blitblt
        !            45: layer.
        !            46: Hitting return selects the (default) name in parentheses.
        !            47: If the first character typed is a 
        !            48: .L |
        !            49: (pipe symbol), the remainder of
        !            50: the line is taken as a shell command which will read the bitmap
        !            51: on its standard input.
        !            52: .TP
        !            53: .BI | " command"
        !            54: The selected portion of the screen is sent to the
        !            55: .I command
        !            56: specified by the
        !            57: .B -p
        !            58: option (default
        !            59: .IR bcan .)
        !            60: .TP
        !            61: .B exit
        !            62: Must be confirmed by clicking button 3 in response to the skull cursor.
        !            63: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            64: .IR bcan (1), 
        !            65: .IR bitfile (5), 
        !            66: .SH BUGS
        !            67: If a pipe request fails, the
        !            68: .I blitblt
        !            69: layer becomes unusable.
        !            70: .I Blitblt
        !            71: only works on monochrome displays.

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