On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:23, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Yes that very much proves the point. > There is a vast amount of s/w that can be used, buts very its > fragmented, and some was written when both Mandrake and Redhat were in > their infancy. > Some require ancient versions of ncurses to work, as well as some old > libs. > For Packet use there really is a need for an easy to configure split > screen term, so that anything typed is always kept separately . > Now for those wondering what I'm on about, the last thing wanted if your > connected to a server which is sending you text data, and is also having > text data sent to it, is for what your typing to get mixed up in an > incoming message.
You might want to look at screen. It allows you to run text "windows" in a term window or tty just like you would in a graphical environment James > > Most of the apps we all use on this list is easily adapted for Ham > amprnet use, as the protocols are the same, SMTP,POP3,NNTP. > AS for IRLP there is a command line util, it compiles OK but any man > page gets lost as it loads into /usr/man........Slackware and suse > style. > I could'nt compile the GUI which is xforms based as there were so many > link errors. > However, I found a gui written in Perl which works , so that application > is up and running. Its not Newbie friendly !!. > > > Apologies for the waffle, just trying to explain the position > > Richard > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:13, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 04:57, Richard Bown wrote: > > > Hi all > > > I know there are a few Hams on this list as I've spotted the odd > > > callsign on sig files. > > > > > > Applications like Echolink which which only runs on windows are getting > > > very popular. > > > However it cant be run on Win4Lin as no input devices are supported. > > > Attempts so far to run on vmware have no been good, the codecs on winxp > > > on wmware cant handle the sampling rate so playback is slower than > > > normal...so unuseable. > > > win98 on vmware no audio at all, trying now win2000. > > > > > > There are linux apps to do the same thing ie, echolinux. > > > I managed to get the driver compiled, but the gui throws up many errors > > > when compiling. > > > > > > Again we have the problems of s/w written for one distro being very > > > difficult to get running on another. > > > this was written in slackware , has been used on suse, but both redhat > > > and mandrakes file structure differ from slackware and suse. > > > Are there any hams or anyone else could help me port some of the linux > > > Ham s/w to mdk compatibility and produce mdk RPMs ? > > > > > > TIA > > > Richard G8JVM > > Hi, > > Wish I did know how to do this. I've been looking for a packet terminal > > program to access a tnc on a serial port. Currently running Paket 62 > > under Dosemu. Works great, but I'd like to find a native linux program > > equivalent to this. > > Dan KD4JDL > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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