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@@ -6,12 +6,19 @@ feed parser. It's just an aggregator; it's not a weblog authoring tool, nor is
 it an NNTP gateway, outliner, mailserver or anything else.  rawdog probably
 only runs on Unix-like systems.
 
-rawdog reads articles from a number of feeds and writes out a single HTML file
-containing the latest articles it's seen. It uses the ETags and Last-Modified
-headers to avoid fetching a file that hasn't changed, and supports gzip
-compression to reduce bandwidth when it has. It is configured from a simple
-text file; the only state kept between invocations that can't be reconstructed
-from the feeds is the ordering of articles.
+rawdog requires Python 2.2 or later. rawdog itself doesn't need any
+additional modules to be installed, but it uses distutils for
+installation, so if you're on a Debian system you'll need to install the
+"python-dev" package first.
+
+rawdog reads articles from a number of feeds and writes out a single
+HTML file, based on a template either provided by the user or generated
+by rawdog, containing the latest articles it's seen. It uses the ETags
+and Last-Modified headers to avoid fetching a file that hasn't changed,
+and supports gzip compression to reduce bandwidth when it has. It is
+configured from a simple text file; the only state kept between
+invocations that can't be reconstructed from the feeds is the ordering
+of articles.
 
 To install rawdog on your system, use distutils -- "python setup.py install".
 This will install the library modules that rawdog needs, and will install the
@@ -45,6 +52,32 @@ known feed: Update that feed immediately, even if its period hasn't
 elapsed since it was last updated. This is useful if you're trying to
 debug your own feed.
 
+"--config FILE" (or "-c FILE"), where FILE is an absolute path or a path
+relative to your .rawdog directory: Read FILE as an additional config
+file; any options provided in FILE will override those set in the
+default config (with the exception of "feed", which is cumulative).
+This is useful if you want rawdog to write two different output files
+with different sets of options ("rawdog -u -w -c config2 -w" will first
+update and write with the default config, then read config2, then write
+again).
+
+"--show-template" (or "-t"): Print the template currently in use to
+stdout. This is useful as a starting point if you want to modify your
+own template: do "rawdog -t >~/.rawdog/mytemplate" with "template
+default" in your config file, and you'll get a copy of the default
+template to edit.
+
+There are also the following options which may only be supplied once
+(they're read before any of the actions are performed):
+
+"--help": Provide a brief summary of all the options rawdog supports,
+and exit.
+
+"--dir DIR" (or "-d DIR"), where DIR is a directory: Use DIR instead of
+the $HOME/.rawdog directory. This is useful if you want to have two or
+more completely different rawdog setups with different sets of feeds;
+just create a directory for each.
+
 You will want to run "rawdog -uw" periodically to fetch data and write
 the output file. The easiest way to do this is to add a crontab entry
 that looks something like this: