---
name: spinner
version: 1.2.4
origin: sysutils/spinner
comment: Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity
arch: freebsd:9:x86:64
www: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html
maintainer: mich@FreeBSD.org
prefix: /usr/local
licenselogic: single
flatsize: 36108
desc: "Spinner is a small program that displays a little \"spinning\" ASCII \ncharacter
  in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect \nit cycles through
  punctuation marks like this \" - \\ | / - \\ | / ... \" \n(try it to see). By default
  the character is drawn in inverse video \n(or your terminal's equivalent). But you
  can turn this off with the -i \nswitch. It supports any terminal capable of handling
  VT100 style escape codes.\n\nSpinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links
  from dropping due to \ninactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections
  when they are \nperceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly
  \nsending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. \nThus
  (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, \nbackground daemon
  process for unix variants including linux.\n\nWWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html\n\n\t-
  Michael L. Hostbaek\n\tmich@FreeBSD.org\n"
categories: [sysutils]
files:
  /usr/local/sbin/spinner: 0da00224339c0be13b3757c34bcf0f9e9da937d43861334978bbb0b6c1259988
  /usr/local/share/doc/spinner/README: 6ac11a115fc62779987212a23d5f3f8c99536fead1df987a3858790240c40726
directories:
  /usr/local/share/doc/spinner/: n
scripts: {}
