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.TH PONYSAY SECTION "April 10, 2012"
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.SH NAME
ponysay \- A cowsay wrapper with ponies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ponysay
.RI [ options ] [ message ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
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\fBponysay\fP displays an image of a pony saying some text provided by the user
in a terminal. It is a wrapper for \fIcowsay\fP. If run with no arguments, it
accepts standard input, word-wraps the message given at about 40 columns, and
prints the pony saying the given message on standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-l
List ponyfiles
.TP
.B \-f [ name ]
Select a pony (Either a filename or a pony name)
.TP
.B \-W [ column ]
The screen column where the message should be wrapped
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR cowsay (1).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
ponysay was written by Erkin Batu Altunbaş <erkinbatu@gmail.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Louis Taylor <kragniz@gmail.com>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).