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.TH ELECTRICSHEEP 1 "June 27, 2001"
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.SH NAME
electricsheep \- collective dream of computers screensaver
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B electricsheep
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Electric sheep
is the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Less
poetically, it is an Internet server and xscreensaver module that displays MPEG
video of an animated fractal flame. In the background, it contributes render
cycles to the next animation. Periodically, it uploads completed frames to the
server, where they are compressed for distribution to all clients.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
.TP
.B \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-\-nick <name>
Set nickname to use for uploading rendered frames
.TP
.B \-\-nice N
Set nice level to run renderprocess under.
.TP
.B \-\-timeout N
Set timeout for downloading pre-rendered mpegs in seconds
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.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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