Hans-Peter Zorn wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:31:49PM +0100, Joachim Holst wrote:
> > Well, what's special about winpack, is that it can make many nice/not
> > nice sounds depending on different events.
> Well, this can LinKT do too ;-). Very important. grin
>
> > Since you don't have an FBB, how do you manage your mail system in
> > Germany ?
>
> We have mostly BayCom mailboxes and some DPBox systems. With unproto
> list you have to keep your station running the whole day? Hmm.
Nope, we don't have to. Every beacon has the las message number and if a
client sees that the numbers differ, it initiates a resync of the
missing headers. Doesn't require that much traffic.
> Here people connect to the bbs, download the "checklist" (new mails)
> and the terminal offers a list window in which you can select the
> message you want to download and generates read commands (as LinKT
> does).
Doesn't htat generate a lot lot of uneccesary transmissions ??
Whith unproto headers, all systems use the same resync list.
>
> > I looked a bit on your page, and found a protocol called didadit that
> > according to that page is "widely" used. I've never heard about it and I
> > don't know one peice of software that supports it. Guess there are some
> > great differences between countries :-/
>
> Well, no it is not widely used yet, but we are trying to make it more
> popular. I have to translate the spec before that will happen, I
> guess ;-)
>
Yup, Good idea !
Didn't really feel up to reading specs in german. :-(
> > Those packages, have the ability to decode FBB's unproto headers and one
> > can tell it to download mail to different areas. That would be a good
> > thing to incorporate into LinKT and/or the mailer.
>
> Yes, although we won't incorporate it, but we will make the utils
> aware of our message handling system vjbox, send the patches to
> the ax25-mails-utils' author. So the same utils can support both
> programs.
OK..
>
> > A graphical viewer that reads and
> > decodes APRS packets retrieved via the AX25 kernel socket.
>
> Would be nice, indeed. But currently not planned (as far as I know).
>
Well, so far, we can get by using JavaAPRS forour Linux clients. Great
package BTW..
/Jocke!
SM7XAB
