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+.TH XKIBITZ 1 "06 October 1994"
+.SH NAME
+xkibitz \- allow multiple people to interact in an xterm
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B xkibitz
+[
+.I xkibitz-args
+] [
+.I program program-args...
+]
+.br
+.SH INTRODUCTION
+.B xkibitz
+allows users in separate xterms to share one shell (or any program
+that runs in an xterm). Uses include:
+.RS
+.TP 4
+\(bu
+A novice user can ask an expert user for help. Using
+.BR xkibitz ,
+the expert can see what the user is doing, and offer advice or
+show how to do it right.
+.TP
+\(bu
+By running
+.B xkibitz
+and then starting a full-screen editor, people may carry out a
+conversation, retaining the ability to scroll backwards,
+save the entire conversation, or even edit it while in progress.
+.TP
+\(bu
+People can team up on games, document editing, or other cooperative
+tasks where each person has strengths and weaknesses that complement one
+another.
+.TP
+\(bu
+If you want to have a large number of people do an on-line code
+walk-through, you can sit two in front of each workstation, and then
+connect them all together while you everyone looks at code together
+in the editor.
+.SH USAGE
+To start
+.BR xkibitz ,
+one user (the master) runs xkibitz with no arguments.
+
+.B xkibitz
+starts a new shell (or another program, if given on the command
+line). The user can interact normally with the shell, or
+upon entering an escape (described when xkibitz starts) can add
+users to the interaction.
+
+To add users, enter "+ display" where display is the X display name.
+If there is no ":X.Y" in the display name, ":0.0" is assumed.
+The master user must have permission to access each display.
+Each display is assigned
+a tag \- a small integer which can be used to reference the display.
+
+To show the current tags and displays, enter "=".
+
+To drop a display, enter "- tag" where tag is the display's tag
+according to the "=" command.
+
+To return to the shared shell, enter "return". Then the keystrokes of
+all users become the input of the shell. Similarly, all users receive
+the output from the shell.
+
+To terminate
+.B xkibitz
+it suffices to terminate the shell itself. For example, if any user
+types ^D (and the shell accepts this to be EOF), the shell terminates
+followed by
+.BR xkibitz .
+
+Normally, all characters are passed uninterpreted. However, in the
+escape dialogue the user talks directly to the
+.B xkibitz
+interpreter. Any
+.BR Expect (1)
+or
+.BR Tcl (3)
+commands may also be given.
+Also, job control may be used while in the interpreter, to, for example,
+suspend or restart
+.BR xkibitz .
+
+Various processes
+can produce various effects. For example, you can emulate a multi-way write(1)
+session with the command:
+
+ xkibitz sleep 1000000
+.PP
+.SH ARGUMENTS
+.B xkibitz
+understands a few special arguments
+which should appear before the
+.I program
+name (if given).
+Each argument should be separated by whitespace.
+If the arguments themselves takes arguments,
+these should also be separated by whitespace.
+
+.B \-escape
+sets the escape character. The default escape character is ^].
+
+.B \-display
+adds a display much like the "+" command. Multiple \-display flags
+can be given. For example, to start up xkibitz with three additional
+displays:
+
+ xkibitz -display mercury -display fox -display dragon:1.0
+
+.SH CAVEATS
+Due to limitations in both X and UNIX, resize propagation is weak.
+
+When the master user resizes the xterm, all the other xterms are logically
+resized.
+Unfortunately, xkibitz cannot force the physical xterm size to correspond
+with the logical xterm sizes.
+
+The other users are free to resize their xterm but their sizes are not
+propagated. The master can check the logical sizes with the "=" command.
+
+Deducing the window size is a non-portable operation. The code is known
+to work for recent versions of SunOS, AIX, Unicos, and HPUX. Send back
+mods if you add support for anything else.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The environment variable SHELL is used to determine and start a shell, if no
+other program is given on the command line.
+
+If the environment variable DISPLAY is defined, its value is used for the
+display name of the
+.B xkibitz
+master (the display with tag number 0). Otherwise this name remains empty.
+
+Additional arguments may be passed to new xterms through
+the environment variable XKIBITZ_XTERM_ARGS.
+For example, to create xterms
+with a scrollbar and a green pointer cursor:
+.nf
+
+ XKIBITZ_XTERM_ARGS="-sb -ms green"
+ export XKIBITZ_XTERM_ARGS
+
+.fi
+(this is for the Bourne shell - use whatever syntax is appropriate for your
+favorite shell). Any option can be given that is valid for the
+.B xterm
+command, with the exception of
+.BR -display ,
+.B -geometry
+and
+.BI -S
+as those are set by
+.BR xkibitz .
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR Tcl (3),
+.BR libexpect (3)
+.BR kibitz (1)
+.br
+.I
+"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs"
+\fRby Don Libes,
+O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.
+.br
+.I
+"kibitz \- Connecting Multiple Interactive Programs Together", \fRby Don Libes,
+Software \- Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England,
+Vol. 23, No. 5, May, 1993.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology