bterm (1)

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                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/bterm.1".)

NAME

bterm - framebuffer terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

bterm -f font.bgf [-l locale] [program]

DESCRIPTION

bterm is a terminal emulator for the Linux framebuffer. It supports multibyte locales and wide characters, in addition to basic terminal features such as cursor positioning.

OPTIONS

-f font.bgf

Specify the font. BGF fonts are produced by bdftobogl(1) from standard BDF font files.

-l locale

Specify a locale for bterm and processes run within it. The locale may also be specified normally in the environment. If a locale, especially one with a different character set than the current locale, will be used inside of bterm, it should be specified on the command line.

EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

1-125

Exit code from executed program

127

Failed to exec program

>=128

Program terminated by signal.

NOTES

On Debian systems, one appropriate BDF font can be found in the bf-utf-source package.

SEE ALSO

bdftobogl(1)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>.