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Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII
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character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect
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it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - \ | / - \ | / ... "
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(try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video
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(or your terminal's equivalent). But you can turn this off with the -i
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switch. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes.
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Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to
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inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are
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perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly
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sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection.
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Thus (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing,
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background daemon process for Unix variants including Linux.
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- Michael L. Hostbaek
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mich@FreeBSD.org
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