Neue manpage.

diff --git a/man/man1/Makefile.am b/man/man1/Makefile.am
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--- a/man/man1/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/man1/Makefile.am
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ man_MANS = \
        papstatus.1 \
        psorder.1 \
        single2bin.1 \
+       timeout.1 \
        unbin.1 \
        unhex.1 \
        unsingle.1

diff --git a/man/man1/timeout.1 b/man/man1/timeout.1
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+.TH "timeout" "1" "19 Jul 2001" "netatalk 1.5pre7" "The Netatalk Project"
+
+.SH "NAME"
+.LP 
+timeout \- Send a signal to a program after a certain time
+
+.SH "SYNTAX"
+.LP 
+timeout [\-s \fIsignal\fP] \fIseconds\fP \fIprogram\fP [\fIargs\fP]
+
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+.LP 
+\fBtimeout\fR executes a \fIprogram\fP (with arguments \fIargs\fP) and sends a
+\fIsignal\fP to it after a certain amount of \fIseconds\fP.
+
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.LP 
+.TP 
+\fB\-s\fR \fIsignal\fP
+Signal to send to the spawned process. This can be a numerical or symbolic ID.
+This defaults to \fBTERM\fR.
+
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.LP
+.TP
+timeout 10 pap foo.ps
+Execute "pap foo.ps" and send a \fBSIGTERM\fR if \fBpap\fR doesn't return
+after 10 seconds.
+.TP
+timeout -s HUP 60 sh
+Spawn a shell and send a hangup signal after one minute.
+.TP
+timeout -s 9 10 evilprog
+Execute a program and \fBKILL\fR it if it doesn't quit after 10 seconds.