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License

This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 along with this package; see the file GPL.

Known bugs and limitations

The following list provides information why this epplet is far from being perfect.

• analog PPP not supported (If you would like a version with analog PPP support, please tell me)
• the colors used for displaying the transfer rates (including the background color) are currently not configurable (neither in the config window nor in the config file)
• not all existing config options are presented in the user interface
• the epplet will probably never support other operating system than Linux, unless someone volunteers to implement the missing parts

I hope the epplet is still useful to you.

Changes

Version 0.2 - 0.3

• The transfer rate is now determined more precise. The function can now cope with update rates different from integer values. It also determines the actual time interval between updates instead of the scheduled one.
• Some internal values are reinitialized upon every connection.

Version 0.1 - 0.2

• I now use the ioctl IIOCNETGPN to check for the connection. It will work on kernels >= 2.2.12. If you need the old version you must compile the package by yourself, I support the old version too but in compilation step only.

Thanks

I want to thank the following persons:

• Martijn Pieterse and Antoine Nulle for creating wmppp which I used for years. Both created a wonderful program.
• Marcelo E. Magallon for providing the Debian package of wmppp.
• Thomas Apel for modifying wmppp to support ISDN.
• All the enlightenment guys for creating that window manager and the epplet library.
• The authors of E-Launch, E-CPU, and E-FancyLaucher for the inspiration I got from reading their source code.
• Wolfgang Rohdewald for pointing me a bit into the right direction for checking the connection status. I should have looked at the source of isdnctrl in the first place.

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