Wellllllll..."pon" and "poff", and let's not overlook "plog" _are_ elegantly tiny and simple, _but_ since my ISP instituted 'idle-time disconnects' I don't always know whether I'm connected or not. A little on/off light thingie might be nice to check before doing an apt-get, a perl -MCPAN or a wget.
AAMOF, since "pon's" man page is also elegantly tiny and simple, I have not found if or how it can be activated by an application yet. Anyone know? Then I could care less about a little light thingie. montefin Andrew McRobert wrote: > > hi > > ... given the absolutely beautiful simplicity of "pon" and "poff" ... who > wld want a clunky GUI? > > :) > > A > > Upon a time Taupter wrote: > > > > 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah > in > > > the console or term. > > pon is some sort of script who calls "pppd call connection". > Gnome-Dialup is some sort of front-end for "pppd call", as pon is. > > Taupter >
