cave(1)

NAME
cave - Play ascii character animations.

SYNOPSIS
cave [ -hvRSsd ] [ -f fps ] [ -c cue ] [ -r regex ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
cave is an acronym for Character Animation Viewer for Everyone. It plays ascii character animations with an curses(3) interface. cave tries to determine the location of a frame automatically (top or bottom). Files compressed with gzip(1) are supported.

OPTIONS

-f fps
    Initial frames-per-second. The default is 15.

-c cue
    Skip this many frames when using the cue keys. The default is 8.

-r regex
    Alternate extended regular expression to specify a frame deliminator. The default is '^[0-9]+[[:space:]]$' which is used for frame delays.

-d  Make a specified frame deliminator a value for a frame delay. This is the default if no alternate frame delay is specified.

-s  Go directly into screensaver mode on startup cycling through multiple files.

-S  Go directly into screensaver mode shuffling the order of files if more than one file is specified.

-R  Enable experimental 'realtime' support. This consumes as much CPU time as possible at the moment and doesn't really work that well.

-h  Program help text.

-v  Version and copyright information.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS
Press 'h' to see a list of interactive commands after loading a file.

SEE ALSO
curses(3), setitimer(2), select(2), zlib(3), re_format(7)

AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2002 bjk <bjk@arbornet.org>. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.