slave - a semi-interactive interactive command for the dirty work
slave [ command ]
slave -f
The purpose of the slave command is to do all those small things around
the computer that one never finds the time for.
One typical use for the slave command is to change the
toner in one's laser printer. The interface for the slave command is
kept simple, mainly to keep down the complexity of the internal parser.
- -f
- Send a rapid succession of SIHUPs to slave, mainly used when
one needs to blow off a little steam.
Almost any phrase in pidgin English is acceptable input to the slave
program, but care should be taken to keep grammatical structure on an easy
level, so not to confuse the poor program.
This program violates many standards and ethics, most notably the UN's Human
Rights (as if they were extendable to programs...)
This man page is written by Ingvar Mattsson, 1996, in an effort to extend the
alt.sysadmin.recovery collection of man pages.