[Image] T-Online Command Center

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T-OnlineCC (T-Online Command Center) is a program to control a Slip
connection to the german internet provider Deutsche Telekom T-Online and to
calculate your phone and online costs. I wrote this little program because
of the extremly complex cost structure of the "Deutsche Telekom" and to have
an overview about my phone and online costs.

Therfore it is only interesting for people living in Germany, but I think it
is no problem for a Perl-Guru to adapt it to other internet providers.

For general information about using T-Online under Linux look at my short
article written for the german Linux-Magazin (sorry, this page is only in
german).

[Image] Screenshot of T-OnlineCC

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What are the features of T-OnlineCC ?

Some features are :

   * Motif Graphical User Interface.
   * Start and stop your DIP connection (script is included).
   * Calculation of the costs of an online connection to T-Online.
   * Document your online connections into a logfile.

Future features :

   * Multi language support (english, german).
   * Calculate the resulting costs over the logfile.

Restrictions :

   * T-Online is reachable from everywhere in Germany at the number 01910
     for the rate "Citytarif", therefore T-OnlineCC works incorrect when you
     use long distance calls.
   * The phone and online costs are dependent of german holidays. I
     programmed only the holidays for 1996 and 1997.

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What is the actual version of T-OnlineCC and where can i get it ?

The actual version of T-OnlineCC is 0.4 from 15.09.1996. As I received
almost no bug reports, the program is considered to be a beta version. It is
useable, most things work, but there may be some bugs left and some features
are not perfectly implemented. Because of the really complex cost structure
of the "Deutsche Telecom" I am not sure if I calculate always correct.
Especially I am not shure what happens when day type, time rate and/or
online rate changes during the connection. If you find some bugs, errors or
missing features, please drop me a mail. I'm working on it, so I may help
you.

The latest version is available at

http://home.t-online.de/home/r.schoeb/T-OnlineCC-0.4.tar.gz

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What is needed to run T-OnlineCC ?

T-OnlineCC is based on Perl, so you need a machine where Perl is running.
For most Unix like machines, Perl is available. You also need Finesse, an
excellent graphical enhancement for shell and Perl scripts. Unfortunately
the latest Linux version of Finesse is linked dynamically, so you need the
Motif shared librarys, but it will be available as a statically linked
version soon. T-OnlineCC is tested under:

   * Linux 2.0.0
   * Perl 5.0
   * Finesse 4.1
   * Motif 2.0

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Where can I get Finesse ?

Finesse is a product of

science + computing gmbh
Hagelocher Weg 71
D-72070 Tbingen
Germany
Phone +49 (0)7071 9457 0
Fax +49 (0)7071 9457 27
http://www.science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de/

It is available in english and german at nearly all Unix platforms. For
Linux it is free.

You can get it under
http://www.science-computing.uni-tuebingen.de/pub/finesse/

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How to install and use T-OnlineCC ?

   * Log in as root
   * Create the new directory /usr/local/T-OnlineCC and go to it
   * Copy the tar.gz-file to /usr/local/T-OnlineCC/
   * Expand the tar.gz-file
   * Copy app-defaults to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/T-OnlineCC
   * Start T-OnlineCC with /usr/local/T-OnlineCC/T-OnlineCC &

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Enjoy

Reinhold Schb schoeba@str.daimler-benz.com
