[Xastir-dev] aprs message acks

[John Williams]

Xastir when it send an aprs message appends the message number to acknowledge as {22}.

The {22 I understand, but is the trailing } part of the ack or just a character enclosing the 
message number.

I am writing an aprs email server similar to the current email servers. The project started 
because the current servers are either not 24/7 or not reachable 24/7 from VK which amounts 
to the same thing and this does not help people trying to send email messages via a sat gate.

An addition being considered is the use of a continuation character '>' to let the server know 
that the next message from the sending station will be another aprs message to be appended 
to the email.

I an looking at  using the message number to determine the sequence of received packets.

So if the trailing } is just cosmetic, does it really have to be there.

Yes I could detect and not parse it in my code.

Regards

John
VK5ZTY