spinner - Sends small packets over a idle link

       Joe Laffey

       This man page was created for Debian by Jesus Climent

                                                                                                      SPINNER(1)

       Spinner  is an anti-idle program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII character in the top left corner
       of your terminal.  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.

       spinner - Sends small packets over a idle link

-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<ttypath>
              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)

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