From: Volker Boerchers <boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de>
Subject: tcharge-1.3: (X-)watch for telephone charges
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:00:25 GMT

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tcharge version 1.3
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`Tcharge' is a X program for watching the time a telephone connection
is up and to have an eye on the charges to be payed for the
connection. An ("analog") clock displays the time and a textfield
monitors the charge. A possibility for making further statitistics is
provided.

Tcharge provides modules for the following countries/phone companies:
Germany, France, Japan, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary, Belgium, Swiss,
Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Danmark, Spain and the UK.

Adding and editing modules is very easy even without _any_ programming
knowledge: Costs informations can be given in a special simple format.
So it is a simple task for you e.g. to take into account provider
charges. A module allows to define a choice of different tariffs that
co-exists in one tcharge executeable. Tariffs can be choosen via
command line arguments.

And tcharge..
. knows of more than one way to find out the connection time. -
  This makes tcharge very flexible. It may watch ppp, slip or
  other modem connections.
. supports `per unit billing' (e.g. germany, france) and `per second
  billing' (e.g. for USA, UK, DK).
. may set off a little alarm (visual or acoustic) some seconds before
  a new period begins.
. knows about public holidays.
. contains some useful utilities for statistical purposes.
. supports ISDN.

The changes since version 1.2:
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* Now tcharge can print costs also via syslog, not only to a logfile.
* Multiuser-Support: The option -user forces tcharge to print also the
  (e)userid in connection logfiles
* There are scripts to evaluate the logfiles of tcharge,
  e.g. summarize charges for a certain user monthly or for a given
  period.
* Now tcharge contains a "compiler" for charge-description-files.
  This perl-script allows you to define a charge description very fast
  and easy.
* In writing charge-description-files, it is now possible to define
  (or re-define) variables special to one zone, so even different
  charging _structures_ may coexist in one tcharge executeable.
* Now tcharge can deal with costs-changes within a call. After a
  certain duration of a connection (or even starting at the first
  second) the taxes can be reduced to a given percentage of the normal
  value. (This feature is needed e.g. for the german, italian and
  british telephone company.)
* New option '-noX': Allow for only update the logfile with no further
  output/tcharge-window. This way tcharge may now be started at boot
  time.
* Made the name of the tcharge PID-file chooseable via command line
  option (avoid annoying messages if the user has no write-permissions
  in /var/run/.
* If you have some modem connections logged somewhere (e.g. via syslog
  - even if not logged by tcharge!) you can use tcharge to compute the
  charge for this connections afterwards in a batch job, without X and
  automatically.
* Rewrote the whole (extended) documentation (the hardest part of it
  all! :-( Converted the man-page to html.
* Fixed bug in charge calculation on saturdays
  (thanks to michael.renner@tuebingen.mpg.de!)

(not to notice a lot of further improvements and bug fixes.)

- - N - E - W - ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Tcharge Homepage:
  ftp://hix.physik.uni-bremen.de/pub/Linux/tcharge/INDEX.html
Please note the moved Primary-site!
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LSM entry:
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Title:          tcharge
Version:        1.3
Entered-date:   11MAY98
Description:    Tcharge is a X-program to watch the time a telephone
                connection is up and the money to pay for it. It works
                both for 'per unit billing' and for 'per unit
                billing'. Support for the following countries:
                Germany, France, Japan, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary,
                Belgium, Swiss, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa,
                Spain, Denmark and the UK. Support for ISDN.
Keywords:       modem ppp isdn dialup slip clock charge phone
Author:         boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de (Volker B"orchers)
Maintained-by:  boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de (Volker B"orchers)
Primary-site:   hix.physik.uni-bremen.de /pub/Linux/tcharge
                992 tcharge.lsm
                89KB tcharge-1.3.tgz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/serial/
Platforms:      libX11, perl(recommended)
Copying-policy: GPL
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Volker B"orchers <boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de>



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