noseguy text

[re-v]

The sreen saver noseguy allows for the use of text files.
Is anyone experieced in what kind of text files it wants?
I would like to produce mty own text files for use in an elementary school. It reads the text but does'nt
want to parse the file..the way I suppose it does in the default mode.
Also when it displays the text it deadlocks when reading text from foo.txt.
It does'nt seem to work like the phosphor screensaver-- screensaver which I have working using echo and printf in a bash script.
Using fortunes as a model, fortunes has text files stored as text no extensions and cooresponding .dat files which are binary, not much help to see the way it's done

TIA
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[mdwatts]

I've never heard of 'noseguy'.

Any documentation on the site you downloaded noseguy from or included in the package? Does it install a manpage? man noseguy

Your other thread on the same question has been removed.

[re-v]

noseguy?
found it on screensaver menu on mandrake 8.2
It shows a little man cartoon character who is mostly nose. he moves randomly about the screen and reports in a cartoon like caption bubble the contents of a program,txt file or written txt.
There is documentation on google...noseguy
I'm still stuck and would appreciate a pointer.

TIA

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[mdwatts]

Anything in the default text file that noseguy uses that may help with the formatting of the file?

[mdwatts]

I found http://www.repton.com/easydocs/linux/man/man1/noseguy.htm with a Google for Linux search for 'noseguy'.

www.google.com/linux