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- asppp version 0.1.1 ALPHA
- written by Brad Hughes
- bhughes@arn.net
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- I wrote this program basically to get a little experience with Xt
- programming. If you read the source carefully enough, you can see that i
- did take bits and pieces of code from asmail and a little from asclock.
- I'd like to thank those two authors... because with out hacking through
- their code I'd still be playing with libXaw3d. :)
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-
- Like I said, this is my first X program. I used some of the icons i got
- off the web as the defaults (PhoneTT.xpm and 2 others derived
- therefrom). I'd like to thank the creator of this icon.
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-
- Brief description:
-
- asppp manages your ppp session grahpically...
- it checks /proc/net/route for a ppp entry every 5 seconds...
-
- when a ppp route exists... you have an icon to send SIGTERM to
- pppd (hang up the modem essentially)
- when you dont have a ppp route in /proc/net/route... then the
- icon lets you invoke pppd (dial up the modem)
-
-
- left click: executes the current icons "function" (dial. hup, exit)
- right click: cycle thru available options (either dial/hup, and exit)
-
- NOTE: there is a command line option '-wharfShape' that takes out the
- exit icon (so that you dont accidentally kill it in your Wharf)
-
- asppp looks really neat in either Wharf or on the desktop (with
- the options NoTitle, Sticky, AlwaysOnTop)
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- TODO:
- - a configuration file
- - more command line options (over ride options in config file)
- - user specified pixmaps
- - plagarize asmail and use animations (maybe)
- - help / about windows/icons
- - better support for pppd startup
- (like a config window for ~/.ppprc maybe)
- (I included my .ppprc)
- - anything that is suggested that sounds reasonable :)
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-
- Thanks to:
- authors of asmail, asclock, PhoneTT.xpm (i'm gonna get them
- names in here soon!)
- Tim Ward (for telling me that asppp wont load on an 8bit display)
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