penggy - AOL client

penggy [options]

This manual page documents briefly the penggy commands. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

penggy is a program that allows you to connect to the internet via AOL.

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-V, --version

Show version of program.

-f=, --config-file=

Set the configuration file to use.

--access-method=

Set the media used to access AOL.

--protocol=

Set the protocol used for communication with AOL.

-r, --auto-reconnect

Enable autoreconnection

--reconnect-delay=

Set the delay between reconnections.

-d, --daemon

Enable daemon mode, run in background.

-D=, --debug-level=

Set the verbosity of the debug.

--pid-file=

Set the PID file to create.

-s=, --screen-name=

Set the screen-name to use.

-m=, --modem=

Set the serial device to use for the modem.

--rtscts

Enable hardware flow control.

--init-str=

Set the primary initialization string sent to the modem.

--dial-str=

Se the string used to dial.

-n=, --phone=

Set the primary phone numer to use.

-s=, --line-speed=

Set the serial line speed.

-c=, --chat-script=

Set the chat script unsed for logging into AOL.

-t=, --interface-type=

Set the interface type.

-i=, --interface=

Set the interface name.

--dns

Set the DNS when connected.

--ip-up=

Set the script automatically called when IP is up.

--ip-down=

Set the script automatically called when IP is down.

This manual page was written by Sebastian Schmidt <yath@yath.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).