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# $Id: Portfile 20471 2006-11-03 15:27:05Z blair  macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name:		spinner

Version:		1.2.4

Platform:	darwin

Category:	sysutils

Maintainers:     mich  freebsdcluster.org

Description:	Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity

Long Description:	  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 for unix variants including linux.

Homepage:        https://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html

master_sites	https://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/

checksums	md5 21d5d1c5ae20104f0cd36fdf6b0daa71

use_configure   yes

destroot {	set docdst "${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/spinner"

                system "cd ${worksrcpath} &&  		install ${name} ${destroot}${prefix}/sbin &&  		install -d ${docdst} &&  		install README ${docdst}" }

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/spinner
%  sudo port install spinner  
Password: 

--->  Fetching spinner
--->  Verifying checksum for spinner
--->  Extracting spinner
--->  Configuring spinner
--->  Building spinner with target all

--->  Staging spinner into destroot

--->  Installing spinner
%  man spinner
%  apropos spinner
%  which spinner
%  locate spinner

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