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.\"
.\" UnixCW CW Tutor Package - CWGEN
.\" Copyright (C) 1998 Simon Baldwin (simonb@sco.com)
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
.\" as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
.\" of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
.\"
.\"
.TH CWGEN 1 "CW Tutor Package" "G0FRD" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
.\"
cwgen \- generate groups of random characters for Morse code practice
.\"
.\"
.\"
.SH SYNOPSIS
.\"
.B cwgen
[\-g \fIgroups\fP] [\-\-groups=\fIgroups\fP]
[\-n \fIgroupsize\fP] [\-\-groupsize=\fIgroupsize\fP]
[\-c \fIcharset\fP] [\-\-charset=\fIcharset\fP]
.PP
.B cwgen
also accepts the \-h, \-\-help, \-v and \-\-version options.
.PP
The LINUX version understands both short form and long form command
line options. Other versions understand only the short form options.
.PP
Options may be predefined in the environment variable \fBCWGEN_OPTIONS\fP.
If defined, these options are used first; command line options take
precedence.
.PP
.\"
.\"
.\"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\"
.PP
.B cwgen
provides a simple method to generates groups of random characters for
use as input into \fBcw\fP. Command line options control the group
size, number of groups, and character set from which the random
characters are selected.
.PP
.\"
.\"
.\"
.SS COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
.\"
.B cwgen
understands the following command line options. Only the short form
options are available in non-LINUX versions.
.TP
.I "\-g, \-\-groups"
Specifies the number of groups of random characters to generate. The
default value is 128.
.TP
.I "\-n, \-\-groupsize"
Specifies the number random characters in each group. The default
value is 5.
.TP
.I "\-c, \-\-charset"
Defines the character set from which the random characters are
selected. The default value is 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'.
.PP
.\"
.\"
.\"
.SH EXAMPLES
.\"
Generate 20 groups of 10 characters from the set EISH5, and sound
them as Morse code (both short-form and long-form option examples
are shown):
.IP
cwgen \-g 20 \-n 10 \-c "EISH5" | unixcw \-w 25 \-t 850
.IP
cwgen \-\-groups=20 \-\-groupsize=10 \-\-charset="EISH5" |
unixcw \-\-wpm=25 \-\-hz=850
.PP
.\"
.\"
.\"
.SH SEE ALSO
.\"
Man pages for \fBunixcw\fP(1,LOCAL), and \fBcwcp\fP(1,LOCAL).
.\"
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