Hello Ronnie, hello all,
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Gerd wrote:
>
> > Hello Tomi, hello all,
> >
> > > Ahem, well, the reason Eskay Packet under DOS or similar systems under
> > > DOS/Windows have a band monitoring tool built in is that on those
> > > (stupid) platforms something as simple as "listen" is not possible. IMNSHO
> > > there is _no_ reason to duplicate that kind of design in Linux. Linux is a
> > > good multitasking operating system and the networking model nicely permits
> > > running these things in separate programs that are well designed for their
> > > purpose.
> >
> > I guess that is a question of philosophy. To speak for me
> > personally, I'd prefer having all those functions together in a (maybe
> > modular as a compromise) program package. This is the way I am
> > most familiar with.
>
> I'm with you on this too, Gerd. Fortunately, there exists such a program,
> TNT.
[a lot of good news about TNT...]
The moment I last checked the TNT homepage, the authors stated
that there are still problems with interfacing TNT to the AX.25-
kernel. That's a pity since most of us are using some stupid kind of
BayCom modems.
If these problems could be solved anyhow this will be exactly the
moment I give TNT another shot :)
I already had it running some years ago with a TNC2, bypassing
the kernel AX.25 support. Now, if it really should be working with
BayCOm and all the other nice kernel AX.25 devices that would be
very great.
> > > You won't run out of virtual consoles on Linux unless you are doing
> > > something really weird to occupy all of them. With X there is of course no
> > > limit in that sense.
> >
> > But I'd rather be able to see it all on one screen or on _one_ single
> > window. It is simply me liking that way of work better.
>
> Me too. check out:
> ftp://excelsior.kullen.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packet_radio/tnt/tnt1.9-pre1.tgz
I am very pleased that I am not the only one with an opinion like
mine here :)
> But, check with me for a patch to ax25k.c if you want to use the kernel/ax25
> ports. (there is a line missing, and the correction hasn't made the release
> as yet.) tnt1.8 is the current "stable" release. tnt1.9-pre1 is stable,
> and tnt1.9-pre3 is also, but contains a ax25k.c file that is not backwards
> compatible with 2.0.x kernels, or libc. This is all moot if you don't use
> kernel/ax25 ports.
I guess there will be noone really complaining here if you post short
patches into this list.
> If some consider this post "off-topic", my apologies, and I will gladly
> continue discussions on a personal basis with anyone interested.
I do not think that it is offtopic here. It just happens that apparently
not very much people on this list are interested in packet radio
terminal programs. If they want to do Packet Radio they are all
satisfied with call and listen or even with a telnet screen to some
remote machine connected to the Packet Radio network.
A lot of other people simply are not interested in Packet Radio at
all, they love to play games like APRS :)
But hopefully they will not complain about a discussion about
Packet Radio terminal programs.
> There is
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Unfortunately, I am no good C programmer so most of the contents
of that list surely will not be useful for me.
Cheers, 73
Gerd
