bsod man page on OSF1
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NAME
bsod - Blue Screen of Death emulator
SYNOPSIS
bsod [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background
color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual] [-delay
seconds]
DESCRIPTION
The bsod program is the finest in personal computer emulation.
bsod steps through a set of screens, each one a recreation of a differ‐
ent failure mode of an operating system. Systems depicted include Mi‐
crosoft's Windows 95 and Windows NT, Commodore-Amiga's AmigaDOS 1.3,
SPARC Linux, SCO UNIX, the Apple Macintosh (both the MacsBug debugger
and the rarer "Sad Mac"), and the Atari ST.
OPTIONS
bsod accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
-install
Install a private colormap for the window.
-visual visual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a
visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific
visual.
-delay delay
The delay between displaying one crash and another.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
X RESOURCES
Notable X resources supported include the following, which control
which hacks are displayed and which aren't. doWindows, doNT, doAmiga,
doMac, doMacsBug, doSCO, doAtari, doBlitDamage, doSparcLinux, and doS‐
Solaris. Each of these is a Boolean resource, they all default to
true, except for doSparcLinux and doAtari, which are turned off by
default, because they're really not all that interesting looking unless
you're a fan of those systems. There aren't command-line options for
these, so to change them, you'll need to add entries to your .Xdefaults
file, or use the -xrm option. For example, to tell bsod not to show
the NT crash:
bsod -xrm '*doNT: false'
BUGS
Unlike the systems that the images are borrowed from, bsod does not
require a reboot after running.
bsod should also emulate more systems, but systems with interesting
crash graphics are not as common as one might hope.
One I'd really like to see is a Unix system getting a kernel panic,
rebooting, and running fsck(8).
SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1), http://www.microsoft.com/,
http://www.apple.com/, and http://www.sco.com/, http://www.kernel.org/,
and http://www.amiga.de/.
TRADEMARKS
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft Windows NT are
all registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Apple Macintosh is
a registered trademark of Apple Computer. Amiga is a registered trade‐
mark of Amiga International, Inc. Atari ST is probably a trademark,
too, but it's hard to tell who owns it. Linux is a registered trademark
of Linus Torvalds, but it isn't his fault.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1998 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify,
distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any pur‐
pose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No repre‐
sentations are made about the suitability of this software for any pur‐
pose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. No
animals were harmed during the testing of these simulations. Always
mount a scratch monkey.
AUTHOR
Concept cribbed from Stephen Martin <smartin@mks.com>. This version is
by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>.
X Version 11 28-Oct-98 XScreenSaver(1)
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