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Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr')
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diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr index b459a08d2a14..295fcbf3a039 100644 --- a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -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 +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, +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. WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html |