snarfer.1 (1050B)
1 .TH SNARFER 1 2 .SH NAME 3 snarfer \- manage the snarf buffer 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B snarfer 6 [ 7 .B -v 8 ] 9 .SH DESCRIPTION 10 .I Snarfer 11 watches the snarf buffer for changes. 12 Each time a program changes the snarf buffer contents, 13 .I snarfer 14 copies the new contents and then takes over control 15 of the buffer. 16 Because the snarf buffer contents are managed by 17 .I snarfer 18 instead of by individual programs, the contents remain 19 available even after the program that wrote them exits. 20 .PP 21 The 22 .B -v 23 option, intended for debugging, causes 24 .I snarfer 25 to print the new snarf buffer contents each time it changes. 26 .PP 27 On Mac OS X, 28 running 29 .I snarfer 30 keeps the X11 snarf buffer in sync with the Carbon snarf buffer, 31 working around a bug in the OS X X11 server. 32 See 33 .MR getsnarf (3) 34 for more details. 35 .SH SOURCE 36 .B \*9/src/cmd/snarfer 37 .SH SEE ALSO 38 Unix's 39 .IR xclipboard (1), 40 .MR getsnarf (3) 41 .SH BUGS 42 Both 43 .I xclipboard 44 and 45 .I snarfer 46 want sole control of the snarf buffer. 47 Running both at the same time will 48 pass the snarf buffer back and forth between them 49 in an infinite loop.