debian man page for spinner

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NAME
       spinner - Sends small packets over a idle link

SYNOPSIS
       spinner [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Spinner is an anti-idle program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal.  spinner is use-
       ful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections  when  they  are  per-
       ceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection.

OPTIONS
       -f <path>
	      Set pid file path (default ~/.spinner.pid)

       -F     Do *NOT* create a pid file

       -I     Do *NOT* use inverse video for spinner

       -l <path>
	      Set log file path (for debugging). Off by default.

       -L     Display the license

       -n     Send null characters (no visible output)

       -p <priority>
	      Specifies process priority to use

       -P     Do *NOT* change process priority (default is to make nice)

       -r     Reset term on quit (use if you get left in inverse a lot)

       -R     Reset the term and Quit immediately.

       -t <tty path>
	      Specify path of TTY to which to write

       -T     Ignore incompatible TERM environment variable setting

       -u     Delay is in microseconds instead of seconds

       -v     Verbose mode (lots of output)

AUTHOR
       Joe Laffey

DEBIAN MAINTAINER
       This man page was created for Debian by Jesus Climent

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