aafire(1)

aafire1

Aalib example programs

Usage

aafire [options]

aainfo [options]

aasavefont [options] file_name variable_name long_name short_name

aatest [options]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the aafire, aainfo, aasavefont, and aatest programs.

All of these programs exist to demonstrate the capabilities of the aalib library, an ascii art library.

aafire displays burning ascii art flames.

aainfo displays information about what drivers aalib will use for the display, keyboard, and mouse, and what parameters, such as screen size those drivers will use.

aasavefont saves a font to a file.

aatest tests the capabilities of aalib.

Releases

14 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0–13
  3. Arch

Author

This manual page was written by Joey Hess, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

From aalib 1.4rc5-19 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.