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description Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity
Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" \
ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. \
To make this effect it cycles through punctuation marks like \
this " - \ | / - \ | / ... " (try it to see). By default the \
character is drawn in inverse video (or your terminal`s equivalent). \
But you can turn this off with the -i switch. It supports any \
terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes.\
Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping \
due to inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections \
when they are perceived as idle. By having spinner running the \
server is constantly sending a tiny amount of data over the link, \
preserving the connection. Thus Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout \
preventing, background daemon process.
homepage http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html
master_sites http://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/
checksums md5 21d5d1c5ae20104f0cd36fdf6b0daa71 \
rmd160 66a78993947b152fa3f9df17ff650ce3204b6f69 \
sha256 13419c4410db739020532e0628e1b6f7321db102739f3b1b88f105b29a2fcbb2 \
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
xinstall -m 755 -W ${worksrcpath} COPYING README ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}