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.TH DATALINK 1 "December  1, 2001"
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.SH NAME
svgablink, serblink \- programs to send raw data to your Timex Datalink watch
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B svgablink
.RI <DATA_FILE>
.br
.B serblink
.RI <DATA_FILE>
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B svgablink
and
.B serblink
commands.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original programs do not have manual pages.
.PP
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\fBsvgablink\fP and \fBserblink\fP are programs that send data to the
screen or serial transmitter (respectively) to communicate with a Timex
Datalink watch.  They are used by the programs "setwatch" and "settime".
.SH "SEE ALSO"
setwatch(1), settime(1).
.SH AUTHOR
The original datalink software was written by Karl R. Hakimian.
.PP
David Fries <dfries@mail.win.org> added support for the Ironman Datalink to
the datalink software and now is the maintainer.  http://datalink.fries.net/
is the current home.
.PP
This manual page was written by Steaphan Greene <stea@cs.binghamton.edu>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).