On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Steve Dimse K4HG wrote:
} On 3/30/99 3:37 PM Karl F. Larsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
}
} > Well if I had the dos source code it might be possible for me to
} >do that. To just take function and write a server from that is miles ahead
} >of my capability. And if I had that capability it might just be too much
} >work for the results.
} Well, first of all, Bob's code is in QuickBasic, not C. I've seen parts
} of it, it is not clean code. It would take you twice as long to figure it
} out as to start from scratch. Second, the hard part of an APRS program is
} in the user interface code, which is completely different in X than in
} VGA direct QB. So his source code wouldn't help you much, if at all.
Perhaps not. I can't tell.
}
} But tell me, when you go to the store, and they make you pay $6.00 a
} pound for steak, do you start whining that it isn't free? Do you complain
} that they won't let you in the back to cut it yourself? Just like the
} butcher, Bob has every right to sell his wares.
}
Sure and he should! He did nothing but give it away! Wonder why he
did that...odd Might have been he derived some pleasure from seeing lots
of people enjoying his toy.
} You wanna be a butcher, go out and learn how to cut meat. You wanna be a
} programmer, go out and learn how to program. It took me a couple months
} to get javAPRS to the point of being functional. If you want a free Linux
^^^^^^^
I read about javAPRS and hate to say I didn't understand it at
all. Maybe some day it will make sense.
} version, stop whining about others and do something yourself.
}
} Or maybe you don't need to. I got an email about an X version in
} progress. Go whine at this guy to make his program available:
}
I did go to fgiannan's web page and left him a message whining
about how slow he is. That should have a good effect...:-)
} http://www.eazy.net/users/fgiannan/xaprs/index.html
}
He is well along but is having a problem with the ax25 util's of
some sort. No reason to believe it won't be available soon in alpha
version.
} Steve K4HG
}
} No Whiners!
}
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 524-3303 -
