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ROBOTROFF(1) Amiga User's Manual ROBOTROFF(1)
NAME
robotroff - insidious display hack
SYNOPSIS
robotroff [-h[n]] [-l[n]] [-p[n]] [-i] [-kill]
DESCRIPTION
Robotroff is yet another display hack from the warped mind
of Leo Schwab.
Upon invocation, robotroff installs itself in the background
and returns your CLI prompt. It can also be run from the
WorkBench. Robotroff continues to run until killed off.
Robotroff consumes very little CPU, even when active, so it
may be left running until a reset or power-off.
Subsequent invocations of robotroff will attempt to locate
the original invocation, and pass information to it. Thus,
it is possible to modify the operating parameters of the
program while it runs in the background.
The following options are supported:
-h[n] Sets the "highwater" time delay length. The amount
of time between activity will be no longer than n
seconds. If n is not supplied, or is negative or
zero, a default of two minutes will be used.
-l[n] Sets the "lowater" time delay length. The amount
of time between activity will be no shorter than n
seconds. If n is not supplied, or is negative or
zero, a default of thirty seconds will be used.
-p[n] Sets the task priority. This permits the user to
make robotroff consume even less CPU. If n is
absent, zero is assumed.
-i Force activity to occur right now (immediately).
-kill Kills off the original robotroff invocation.
Robotroff will announce that it has been terminated,
then exit, freeing all allocated resources. This
option is meaningless and therefore ignored if
supplied when first running robotroff.
Malformed or unrecognized arguments are silently ignored.
EXAMPLES
robotroff Starts background robotroff process.
robotroff -i Makes background process active immediately.
robotroff -h10 -l5 Reconfigures operating parameters.
robotroff -p-2 Sets priority to -2.
robotroff -kill Terminates background process.
AUTHOR
Leo L. Schwab
BUGS
Probably. Report them to the author as they are encountered.
Note that lack of a desired feature is not considered a bug.