#844 closed defect (fixed)
NEW: spinner-1.2.4
Reported by: | mich@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 1.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
spinner-1.2.4
the port file can be found here: ATTACHED
Desription: 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 (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, background daemon process for unix variants including linux.
Homepage: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html
Comments: none
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Change History (3)
Changed 21 years ago by mich@…
comment:1 Changed 21 years ago by fkr@…
throws a bus error inside a chroot (10.2.x) when invoked with -T. -fkr
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