BEER(1)

📦 version 0.3, in ubuntu jammy

🌸 BEER(1) 🌸

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for beer from the Gerstensaft family, and yes the name is exactly as unserious as it sounds. it's a Graphical frontend to SAFT, and honestly? iconic. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

beer [ gtk-options ] [ -v | -h ] [ -m | -r | -s ]

like, that's the whole vibe check. 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so Gerstensaft is an easy to use graphical frontend to the SAFT protocol, which is basically the trio sendfile(1), sendmsg(1) and receive(1). it's giving "let me send stuff but make it cute."

the way that it can send messages, files and directories, let you add comments, and keep a whole history of recipients?? obsessed. truly main character energy. 🫶

⚠️ real talk though: since sendfile(1), sendmsg(1) and receive(1) are called for real operations, you'll need to have these programs installed as well. no cap. if they're not there, nothing's happening. 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — show the help and dip out. bye bestie 👋
  • -m — run in message mode. 💌
  • -r — run in receive mode. 📥
  • -s — run in send mode. 📤
  • -v — display the version and exit. yes queen, flex the number and leave. ✨

🌈 NAMING 🌈

okay so here's the lore and it's lowkey the best part. Gerstensaft is German and, translated word by word, it means barley juice. so basically in short it's nothing less than simply beer — hence the name of the binary. 🍺

and then, the plot twist: although beer is Bier. 💀 iykyk.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Gerstensaft has been developed by Joey Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. it uses the GIMP Toolkit (Gtk) to draw its user interface. king behavior, honestly. 👑

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • ~/.gerstensaft/history — contains the stored history list of recipients. your little address book of besties. 🍓
  • ~/.gerstensaft/config — contains additional configuration. the settings corner. ✨

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's version 0.3, dated 7 December 2006, and it lives under the manual name BEER(1). slay, drink responsibly, and go send someone a file. 💖✨🍺

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