ANNOUNCE: LinKT 0.6.2 released
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11/11/1999; The next release of LinKT, the packet radio terminal
for the KDE is available.
You can download it from http://1409.org/projects/linkt/download.html.
LinKT, written by Jochen Sarrazin DG6VJ, is an easy to use,
full featured packet radio terminal using Linux' kernel ax25 services.
It offers the following features:
- multiple split-screen terminals; the amount of concurrent qso
is not limited.
- various file transfer protocols including plain text, 7plus, yapp
and didadit.
- message list window for reading/killing/copying messages at a
remote bbs.
- password calculation for various systems.
- online huffman compression.
- sound support
- monitoring tool, decodes various protocols, collects dx spots.
- pingpong convers client.
- English and German manual.
- English, German, Czech, Italian, Dutch, Polish or Spanish
user interface.
Changes since the previous major release (0.6.1):
- Message that a connection setup has failed.
- Fixed scrolling if the QSO-buffer is full.
- Fixed boxcheck.dat parsing: the first line of the bbs� message list
now can be copied directly to the file.
- The main window is activated whenever a window
is sent to the background using ESC
- Switched from KNewPanner to QSplitter
- Fiexd bug when displaying the transfer-status information at windows
bottom.
- Only the sender uses the "SP\-"-prefix for AutoBIN-Chat.
- ConvKT remembers the previuos used server
- LinKT can generate "old-style" DieBox passwords
- Fixed bug within the "reconnect"-handling
- Fixed password checking
- Fixed preferences dialog
- Fixed direction and distance calculation in MonKT (thanks Stefan,
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
- MonKT: Switched from KNewPanner to QSplitter
- ConvKT: Configuration dialog, most settings can be changed during
program runtime.
- ConvKT: The /msg window should work now
- Messages when trying to disconnect without being connected
and vice versa.
Requirements:
- Qt 1.42 or higher.
- The KDE base libraries, version 1.0 or higher.
- The ax25-utilities.
- MonKT needs ax25spyd (http://1409.org/projects/ax25spyd.html)
This is a maintainance release. Please report any bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more information, screenshots and installation hints please refer to
the LinKT homepage at http://1409.org/projects/linkt/index.html.
the 1409.org team
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Hans-Peter Zorn, Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uhsm/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
http://1409.org/people/hp/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hamradio stuff)
