.TH phoon 1 "07 June 1988" .SH NAME phoon - show the PHase of the mOON .SH SYNOPSIS phoon .RB -l .IR lines ] .RI [ date ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Phoon displays the phase of the moon, either currently or at a specified date / time. Unlike other such programs, which just tell you how long since first quarter or something like that, phoon .I shows you the phase with a cute little picture. You can vary the size of the picture with the -l flag, but only some sizes have pictures defined - other sizes use @'s. .SH "SEE ALSO" date_parse(3) .SH AUTHOR Jef Poskanzer. The moon-phase computation is from "moontool.c", by John Walker.