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*  aspbm - afterstep phone bill monitor		   *
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RELEASE  1.1
	written by Pedro Moleiro
	moleiro@ip.pt     

	I wrote this program as my phone provider has diferent pulse cost
depending on the time of day the call is made, and i needed to know how
many seconds do i have until next pulse drop.
	It started as a hack of wmppp, and with the help of loadmeter 
and asclock is now what you can see. In a few words, aspbm checks if a 
ppp connection exists and starts counting. The ppp connection can be 
started and stoped with aspbm or any other app. It displays the time
on-line, time until next pulse drop, transfer speed, graph with in/out 
bytes and some other info.
	Starting in release 1.1 aspbm is also a clock. My wharf is kind 
of full and having aspbm always running when it was only used for a 
little time was no way. So i decided to add an asclock hack, freeing the 
space used for asclock for something else, and change to dialing view 
only when needed.
	A GTK app for the configuration of aspbm is available with the 
release source code. Read INSTALL. It requires GTK 1.2

INSTALL 
	Instalation is simple, read the INSTALL, HINTS file for 
instalation, and the man pages for the configuration files. 


COPYING
     This is GPL2 software. Read the file COPYING for infos! 

AVAILABILITY
     	the latest releases and notes should be available from
     	http://www.ip.pt/~ip241956/aspbm/aspbm.html             

FEEDBACK 
	Send phone rules, sugestions and bug reports to moleiro@ip.pt

THANKS TO   
 	authors of wmppp, tijno and warp
		   asclock, Beat Christen
		   loadmeter, Ben Buxton 
	to all those who reported bugs and/or sugestions.
