On 3/7/10, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Chris wrote: > >> A bash wrapper around beacon that also starts axlisten for the purpose >> of doing UI mode 'chatting'. >> >> It prompts for what to send the UI 'to' and what digi to use. >> >> I've used it to send APRS msg traffic, I just haven't gotten around to >> an even dirtier version to look for the proper msg number ID and to >> ack those yet. > > If/when you do, consider adding the extra messaging protocols > (REPLY-ACK for one) that are listed in the APRS spec addendums. > They really make messaging fly if both ends implement them. > > Makes me wonder how hard it would be to create a Perl text-mode app > just to do APRS messaging. That might be kind'a fun!
Overall, a very interesting thread. For anyone like me who was wondering what the "beacon" command was a part of... ~$ beacon --help The program 'beacon' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install ax25-tools Now that was easy :-) Lee - K5DAT Murphy, TX _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
