ANNOUNCE: X-ISP v1.8: X11 visual I/F to chat/pppd

[Dimitrios P. Bouras]

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  Greetings to all,

  This is to announce the release of xisp version 1.8, an X11 visual
 interface to pppd/chat, in other words, an X11 dialup networking
 tool for Linux. The .lsm entry is included below. Everything is in
 sunsite.unc.edu:/incoming/Linux right now but it should appear in
 its proper location shortly.

 Significant changes have taken place since version 1.7 and 1.6:

  - New helper application called xispterm. Implements "bare-bones"
    pop-up terminal for manual login.
  - Added Raphael Wegmann's animated XPM icons and his animation
    code as a compilation ontion.
  - Addition of MTU/MRU input fields in the TCP/IP options.
  - Made account name and password have maximum length 32 instead
    of 8; looks like a few ISPs are going for longer "everything" :)
  - Communication options now also include device flow control
    selector, as well as asyncmap and escape options for pppd.
  - All options are now passed to the pppd command line; additional
    options can be included via the options.xisp file which is no
    longer necessary.
  - Alternative code is provided for retrieving pppd's PID other than
    reading the ppp0.pid file. Provided for folks having problems
    with their pppd installations. Thanks are due to Peter T. Breuer
    for sending the dirent searching code-fragment, and for all the
    tests he kept running for almost a week :)
  - A new "low-color" XPM icon is now also included for those who
    don't have much space to spare in their colormap; xisp's colormap
    needs are approximately halved when using this alternative icon.

 For more detailed information please refer to the documentation files
 in the distribution. Please send bug reports/enhancements/suggestions
 to dbouras at hol.gr.

 With greetings from sunny Athens, Greece,

  Dimitri

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Title:          X-ISP, an X11 visual interface to pppd/chat.
Version:        April 6 1997
Entered-date:   Sun Apr  6 21:27:55 EET DST 1997
Description:    X-ISP is an X11 and XForms based visual
                interface to pppd and chat, implementing a
                dialup networking tool for Linux. Currently
                it only supports PPP type connections. To
                build it you need XForms-0.81 or later, and
                if you don't have it already, libXpm 3.4f or
                later. Information on where to get XForms
                is included in the distribution.
Keywords:       PPP, X11, X11R6, XForms
Author:         dbouras at hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
Maintained-by:  dbouras at hol.gr (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
Primary-site:   sunsite.ubc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/serial
                58.2k xisp-1.8.tar.gz
Alternate-site: argeas.argos.hol.gr /pub/unix/linux
                58.2k xisp-1.8.tar.gz
Original-site:
Platform:       Linux
Copying-policy: GNU GPL
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