### ticker-1.0 README file

    Introduction:
    ------------

    Run "ticker text" to just display text on the screen. See the man page for
    more info.

    If you're a slashdot news junkie, you'll want to use slashdot-ticker. I'm
    fond of running it with the following options, myself:

    	slashdot-ticker -a 120 -- -d 0.3

    (Ie, scroll fairly fast, and only display articles younger than 2 hours
    old.)

    If you're into freshmeat, use freshmeat-ticker, or if you like them both,
    linuxnews-ticker.

    The programming interface:
    -------------------------

    Setting up a program to communicate with ticker and make it change the text
    it displays periodically isn't too hard if you understand shared memory.
    Take a look at the sysinfo-ticker for a simple example that you can modify
    for your own purposes. Basically, you open a non-private shared memory
    segment of a given size, and then you pass its id number to ticker via -s

    Please report any problems to Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>.