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Update the man page a little (but by no means completely)
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RCS file: /cvsroot/audacity/audacity-src/help/audacity.1,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -d -r1.5 -r1.6
--- audacity.1 2 Oct 2003 02:34:10 -0000 1.5
+++ audacity.1 15 Sep 2007 21:46:22 -0000 1.6
@@ -5,9 +5,16 @@
.SH NAME
audacity \- Graphical cross-platform audio editor
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B audacity [
+.B audacity
+-help
+.br
+.B audacity
+[-blocksize nnn] -test
+.br
+.B audacity
+[-blocksize nnn] [
.I AUDIO-FILE
-.B ]
+]
.B ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Audacity
@@ -18,9 +25,7 @@
menu. This man page describes the Unix-specific
features, including special files and environment variables.
-The only command-line arguments Audacity
-takes are the names of audio files to open. Audacity
-currently uses
+Audacity currently uses
.B libsndfile
to open many uncompressed audio formats such as WAV,
AIFF, and AU, and it can also be linked to
@@ -28,8 +33,12 @@
.B libvorbis,
and
.B libflac,
-to provide support for opening MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files,
+to provide support for opening MP2/3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files,
respectively.
+.B LAME, libvorbis, libflac
+and
+.B libtwolame
+provide facilities to export files to all these formats as well.
If you specify multiple files on the command-line, Audacity
will import all of them into the same project, which is
@@ -42,8 +51,22 @@
from the command line, use
.B sox.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP 10
+\fB-help\fR
+display a brief list of command line options
+.TP 10
+\fB-version\fR
+display the audacity version number
+.TP 10
+\fB-test\fR
+run self diagnostics tests (only present in development builds)
+.TP 10
+\fB-blocksize nnn\fR
+set the audacity block size for writing files to disk to nnn bytes
+
.SH FILES
-.I ~/.audacity
+.I ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg
.RS
Per user configuration file.
.RE
@@ -117,6 +140,9 @@
.I nyquist
directory on the search path if you choose to create one.
+.SH VERSION
+This man page documents audacity version 1.3.4
+
.SH LICENSE
Audacity is distributed under the GPL, however some of the libraries
@@ -124,23 +150,24 @@
LGPL and BSD licenses.
.SH BUGS
-See our website for details:
-http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
+For details of known problems, see the release notes and the audacity wiki:
+.br
+http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Known_Issues
-The most serious bug currently is that it does not gracefully
-handle running out of disk space.
+To report a bug, see the instructions at
+.br
+http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reporting_Bugs
.SH AUTHORS
-Primary contributors include Dominic Mazzoni, Joshua Haberman,
-Matt Brubeck, Shane Mueller, Brian Gunlogson, Vaughan Johnson,
-Greg Mekkes, James Crook, and Markus Meyer,
+Project leaders include Dominic Mazzoni, Matt Brubeck,
+James Crook, Vaughan Johnson, Leland Lucius, and Markus Meyer,
but dozens of others have contributed, and Audacity would not
be possible without wxWindows, libsndfile, and many of
the other libraries it is built upon. For the most recent list
of contributors and current email addresses, see our website:
-http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
+http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/credits/
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