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1 perry 1 XScreenSaver
2 !!!XScreenSaver
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 ENVIRONMENT
8 X RESOURCES
9 BUGS
10 SEE ALSO
11 TRADEMARKS
12 COPYRIGHT
13 AUTHOR
14 ----
15 !!NAME
16
17
18 bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator
19 !!SYNOPSIS
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22 __bsod__ [[-display ''host:display.screen'']
23 [[-foreground ''color''] [[-background ''color'']
24 [[-window] [[-root] [[-mono] [[-install] [[-visual ''visual'']
25 [[-delay ''seconds'']
26 !!DESCRIPTION
27
28
29 The ''bsod'' program is the finest in personal computer
30 emulation.
31
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33 ''bsod'' steps through a set of screens, each one a
34 recreation of a different failure mode of an operating
35 system. Systems depicted include Microsoft's Windows 95 and
36 Windows NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3, SPARC Linux, SCO
3 perry 37 UNIX, the Apple Macintosh (both the !MacsBug debugger and the
1 perry 38 rarer ''
39 !!OPTIONS
40
41
42 ''bsod'' accepts the following options:
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45 __-window__
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48 Draw on a newly-created window. This is the
49 default.
50
51
52 __-root__
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55 Draw on the root window.
56
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58 __-mono__
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61 If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome
62 display.
63
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65 __-install__
66
67
68 Install a private colormap for the window.
69
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71 __-visual__ ''visual''
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74 Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
75 visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a
76 specific visual.
77
78
79 __-delay__ ''delay''
80
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82 The delay between displaying one crash and
83 another.
84 !!ENVIRONMENT
85
86
87 __DISPLAY__
88
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90 to get the default host and display number.
91
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93 __XENVIRONMENT__
94
95
96 to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
97 resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER
98 property.
99 !!X RESOURCES
100
101
102 Notable X resources supported include the following, which
103 control which hacks are displayed and which aren't.
104 __doWindows__, __doNT__, __doAmiga__, __doMac__,
105 __doMacsBug__, __doSCO__, __doAtari__,
106 __doBlitDamage__, __doSparcLinux__, and
107 __doSSolaris__. Each of these is a Boolean resource, they
108 all default to true, except for doSparcLinux and doAtari,
109 which are turned off by default, because they're really not
110 all that interesting looking unless you're a fan of those
111 systems. There aren't command-line options for these, so to
112 change them, you'll need to add entries to your .Xdefaults
113 file, or use the -xrm option. For example, to tell bsod not
114 to show the NT crash:
115
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117 bsod -xrm '*doNT: false'
118 !!BUGS
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121 Unlike the systems that the images are borrowed from,
122 ''bsod'' does not require a reboot after
123 running.
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126 ''bsod'' should also emulate more systems, but systems
127 with interesting crash graphics are not as common as one
128 might hope.
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131 One I'd really like to see is a Unix system getting a kernel
132 panic, rebooting, and running fsck(8).
133 !!SEE ALSO
134
135
4 perry 136 X(1), xscreensaver(1),
1 perry 137 __http://www.microsoft.com/__,
138 __http://www.apple.com/__, and
139 __http://www.sco.com/__, __http://www.kernel.org/__,
140 and __http://www.amiga.de/__.
141 !!TRADEMARKS
142
143
144 Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft
145 Windows NT are all registered trademarks of Microsoft
146 Corporation. Apple Macintosh is a registered trademark of
147 Apple Computer. Amiga is a registered trademark of Amiga
148 International, Inc. Atari ST is probably a trademark, too,
149 but it's hard to tell who owns it. Linux is a registered
150 trademark of Linus Torvalds, but it isn't his
151 fault.
152 !!COPYRIGHT
153
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155 Copyright 1998 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy,
156 modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
157 documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
158 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
159 copies and that both that copyright notice and this
160 permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No
161 representations are made about the suitability of this
162 software for any purpose. It is provided
163 !!AUTHOR
164
165
166 Concept cribbed from Stephen Martin
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