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+.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
+.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
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+.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
+.TH CVSASKPASS 1 "March 19, 2005"
+.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
+.\"
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+.SH NAME
+cvsaskpass \- prompt for a password for the CVS DCOP service
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B cvsaskpass
+.RI "[ " generic-options " ]"
+.I prompt
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This utility displays a dialog box prompting the user for the password to
+a CVS repository, then writes the password to standard output and exits.
+You should not need to run this program directly \- it is designed for
+the internal use of
+.BR cvsservice (1).
+.PP
+The prompt should be of the following form:
+.RS
+.PP
+\fIuser\fP@\fIhost\fP's password:
+.RE
+.PP
+This will allow the dialog box to display the details of the CVS
+repository to the user.
+.PP
+This utility is part of the CVS service provided with Cervisia, which in
+turn is part of the TDE Software Development Kit.
+.SH OPTIONS
+For a full summary of options, run \fIcvsaskpass \-\-help\fP.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+If a password was succefully obtained, 0 is returned. If no prompt was
+supplied on the command-line or if the dialog was cancelled, 1 is returned.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR cervisia (1),
+.BR cvsservice (1),
+.BR dcop (1).
+.PP
+Details of how to use the CVS service from within another script or C++
+program can be found in \fI/usr/share/doc/libcvsservice0/DESIGN\fP.
+.SH AUTHOR
+The CVS service was written by Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net>.
+.br
+Cervisia was written by Bernd Gehrmann <bernd@physik.hu-berlin.de>,
+Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net>,
+Andre Woebbeking <woebbeking@web.de>,
+Carlos Woelz <carloswoelz@imap-mail.com> and others.
+.br
+This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
+for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).