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.TH fire 1 2026-04-17 utils
.SH NAME
fire \- exothermic oxygenation
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY fire
.YS
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fire
is a shell script that prints a burning fire into the terminal.
.P
If you are cold, you can make a
.B fire
to use your computer as an electric heater.
(Disclaimer:
While
.B fire
may increase the CPU temperature from frequent calculation and printing,
it is not guaranteed to do so. Its main purpose is to look pretty.)
.P
On a printer or a mechanical teletype terminal, it will only waste your paper and ink.
.SH OPTIONS
.B fire
has no options at this time.
.SH EXIT STATUS
No exit status is defined.
.SH NOTES
.B fire
does not use an artificial delay, but prints as fast as it can,
This may be too slow or too fast to have the desired effect,
but slowing it down is trivial by commenting out and adjusting the
.BR sleep (1)
command in the script, near the botton.
Making it faster is not as trivial; the bottleneck is almost certainly the terminal.
.SH BUGS
.B fire
requires that the terminal supports certain capabilities, such as
ANSI escape codes for colour.
It does not check for those capabilities, but it does make use of
.BR tput (1).
.P
.B fire
currently only uses ASCII characters and the standard 16 colour palette.
.BR termcap (5)
permitting, it should support 256 colours
(there are currently no terminals supporting 16 bit or 24 bit palettes),
and maybe use glyphs that are better suited for rendering a convincing fire.
.SH EXAMPLES
.B fire
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR rain (1)
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