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NAME

       pyntor-selfrun - creation of self-extracting presentation archives

SYNOPSIS

       pyntor-selfrun [OPTIONS] presentation-archive|presentation-directory

DESCRIPTION

       Pyntor  is a presentation tool which can display slides and effects of various formats.  The tool pyntor-
       selfrun allows one to create self-extracting archives containing both the presentation and Pyntor itself,
       so  that it can be run on computers where Pyntor itself is not installed. It also ensures independence of
       the corresponding Pyntor version, as future changes of the  application  do  not  affect  the  previously
       created  presentations.   The  way  pyntor-selfrun  works  is  that  it takes the presentation-archive in
       question, packed as a tarball (which might be named *.pyntor), and the release tarball  of  Pyntor  which
       must  be  present  somewhere. Using a template file, it then creates the self-running and self-extracting
       script for distribution.

       In case the presentation-archive does not exist yet, pyntor-selfrun can create it  automatically  from  a
       presentation-directory.  This  is  useful  even  when  not  creating self-extracting archives, see the -a
       option.

OPTIONS

       -t, --template=templatefile
              Uses a template different from that one which is shipped with Pyntor  and  used  by  default.  The
              template  is  a  script  in  Python  or  another  scripting language, which contains the variables
              %PYNTOR% and %ARCHIVE% which are replaced with the base64-encoded contents of the two files  given
              as arguments to pyntor-selfrun.  This option is not recommended for most cases.

       -a, --archive
              Creates  a  pyntor  presentation-archive from a directory which contains a script file, local data
              files and optionally some local components.  This is a convenience operation,  since  presentation
              archives are just tarballs, but in the future some checks might be done here.

       -r, --release=sourcetarball
              Specifies  where  to find Pyntor itself to include it into the self-extracting archive. The source
              tarball should be a released pyntor-*.tar.gz file.

       -h, --help
              Displays a summary of all available command line options.

BUGS

       In a future version, pyntor-selfrun should allow to create *.pyntor archives automatically by examining a
       script file, including only those files of Pyntor which it really needs.

AUTHORS

       Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

SEE ALSO

       pyntor(1), pyntor-components(1)