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.TH SM 6 "June 14, 2007"
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.SH NAME
sm \- Displays a short text fullscreen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sm
.RI [ text | -  ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR Screen\ Message 
will display a given multi-line message as large as
possible, fullscreen and black on white. You can specify the text either
when launching sm, or edit it while the program is running.
.PP
To clear the displayed text, press Escape.
.PP
To quit the program, press Ctrl-Q or press the button.
.br

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.RI [ text ]
Text to display at start up. Defaults to ":-)". If "-" is passed to sm,
it will read the text to display from stdin.

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>.