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1 Welcome
2 =======
3
4 GNU Alive is a keep-alive program for internet connections.
5 It repeatedly pings a series of user-specified hosts, thereby
6 encouraging (one hopes) the involved networks to not disappear.
7
8 GNU Alive is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
9 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
10 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or
11 (at your option) any later version.
12
13
14 Requirements
15 ============
16
17 GNU Guile (any version)
18 ping(1) that accepts ‘-n -c COUNT’
19
20
21 Installation
22 ============
23
24 See file INSTALL for generic installation instructions.
25 In short:
26
27 $ ./configure
28 $ make
29 $ make install
30
31 Successful installation includes:
32 $(bindir)/alive -- the program
33 $(infodir)/alive.info -- documentation
34
35
36 Troubleshooting
37 ===============
38
39 Please send bug reports to <bug-alive@gnu.org>.
40
41
42
43 Copyright (C) 2012 Thien-Thi Nguyen
44
45 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
46 are permitted provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.