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			      follow 0.1 README

This mini-program is mainly intended for debugging powwow.
It is completely standalone, and needs to be called with a file-name
(example: "follow mycapture").
Hitting ESC or ^C quits "follow", hitting RETURN prints the next line
of the file, any other key prints the next character (only one) of the file

I know it is a _stupid_ program, but it is useful if you find screen-related
bugs in powwow, i.e. powwow does not print some lines or prints something
wrong.
In that case, if you redirect powwow output to a file and reproduce the bug,
you can use "follow your-filename" to examine the file and see what is wrong

How to send a copy of powwow output to a file:
powwow your-arguments | tee your-filename