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asppp version 0.1.3 19 Nov 1998
	Albert Dorofeev albert@mail.dma.be 

	I removed the RCS stuff and put the icons
	back into the common directory whatever you
	might think about it.

	I basically merged the 0.1.1 which was
	autoconf'ed in the AS distro and the 0.1.2
	which was inaccessible during the time
	when ftp.afterstep.org was down.

	I changed the command-line processing so
	that it prints usage anytime something strange
	is seen on the command line and not only when
	you give the obscure "--h".

asppp version 0.1.2 hak ALPHA
        extended by Andreas Haack (0.1.1 is written by Brad Hughes )
		ahaack@bigfoot.com

I extended these program in 3 ways
     1) the possibility to specify dial and hangup script via command line 
        parameters -dailCmd and -hangupCmd 
        e.c.: -dailCmd /etc/ppp/ppp-on -hangupCmd /etc/ppp/ppp-off & 
        The dial script is forked since it may be blocking 
     2) I changed the hangup icon to a "telephone in use" and a stopwatch.
        Now the status of the "ppp line in use" is (hopefully) clearer.
        The other things is the old problem what a button should show
        - the status or the action that is performed (or both).  
        Both would be best but since the first one that shows
        the telephone points out the status I decided to show the status 
        to for the "in use" icon, leaving the exit icon showing the action. 
        I used gimp for the image manupilation and OS/2 PMView to write the 
        xpm resource, since xv/gimp could not handle this format properly. At 
        least it did not look like it used to look before.
     3) I put everything under RCS and changed the makefile not to cleanup every
        time , since the dependency mechanism would not make sense this way.

     Copyright
        Thanks to Brad Hughes for this tools. This is also this first time 
	for me that I do some GPL stuff. So if I did something wrong 
	I apologize. Please tell me.

 	The changes to version 0.1.1 are copyright by Andreas Haack.
	No guarantees or warranties are provided, use this program at 
	your own risk.
        It may be freely copied, changed and used as long as this
	 copyright-notice is left intact.

     Background 
        Although I work and developed software for a long time for commercial 
	Unixes as well as for Windows NT and a little OS/2, OS/2 was my private 
	choice until half year ago. 
        Of course I had all the GNU tools like perl, vi (yes I love it) and all 
	the other ones. Half a year ago I decided to go Linux since OS/2 is 
	pretty dead. I have had the plan that I had to find an Linux-replacement 	for all the wonderful tools I had on OS/2 with in 6 month.
        I can tell you that I succeeded. I missed the OS/2 Workplace-shell a 
	lot, which is really the most powerful and consistent window manager 
	(if you would call it that way) still available today (if you know 
	how to use it).  Mostly I missed that drag and drop and consistent 
	clipboard support. The Clipboard does not work always between 
	Netscape and bash and even with in Netscape there are different ways 
	to do it and sometimes you cant do that at all. Other things that 
	I used to do with the WPS I am doing now with my Intra net-Space 
	even in a  better way.

asppp version 0.1.1 ALPHA
	written by Brad Hughes
		bhughes@arn.net


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. :)


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.  


Brief description:

	asppp manages your ppp session graphically...
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 don't 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 don't accidentally kill it in your Wharf)

	asppp looks really neat in either Wharf or on the desktop (with 
the options NoTitle, Sticky, AlwaysOnTop)


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 :)


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)