Updating the manual to 0.7.3 (with -N).
authorviric <viriketo@gmail.com>
Sat, 26 May 2012 16:49:58 +0200
changeset 320 549211f9affa
parent 319 466e01761667
child 322 db798418e0fd
Updating the manual to 0.7.3 (with -N).
ts.1
--- a/ts.1	Sat May 26 16:46:47 2012 +0200
+++ b/ts.1	Sat May 26 16:49:58 2012 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" that should have been distributed together with this file.
 .\" 
 .\" Note: I took the gnu 'ls' man page as an example.
-.TH TS 1 2011-11 "Task Spooler 0.7.2"
+.TH TS 1 2012-05 "Task Spooler 0.7.3"
 .SH NAME
 ts \- task spooler. A simple unix batch system
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@
 with an additional ".e". For example, /tmp/ts-out.SKsDw8 and /tmp/ts-out.SKsDw8.e.
 Only the stdout file gets created with \fBmkstemp\fR, ensuring it does not overwrite
 any other; the ".e" will be overwritten if it existed.
+.TP
+.B "\-N <num>"
+Run the command only if there are \fbnum\fB slots free in the queue. Without it,
+the job will run if there is one slot free. For example, if you use the
+queue to feed cpu cores, and you know that a job will take two cores, with \fB\-N\fB
+you can let ts know that.
 .SH ACTIONS
 Instead of giving a new command, we can use the parameters for other purposes:
 .TP
@@ -301,7 +307,7 @@
 .SH NOTES
 This page describes
 .B ts
-as in version 0.7.2. Other versions may differ. The file
+as in version 0.7.3. Other versions may differ. The file
 .B TRICKS
 found in the distribution package can show some ideas on special uses of
 .B ts.