[Xastir-dev] a readable version of the latest official APRS spec?

[Alan Crosswell]

Sorry for the off-topic post but I felt this group might be more 
appropriate to ask this question of:  I'm trying to figure out how to 
make aprsdigi (aprsdigi.sourceforge.net) do whatever the fix14439.html 
document of Bob's says.  I must say, frankly, as usual with Bob's 
documentation, it is very long and tends to ramble in a manner that 
makes it difficult to read.  In fact, right now, on my slow inkjet 
printer, it's even difficult to print:-)  I found reading the official 
APRS Protocol Specification at www.tapr.org to be much more useful when 
developing aprsdigi.  However, there seems to be no update to that spec 
despite the fact that Bob's web pages claim the working group voted on a 
1.1 spec a year ago.  Did the TAPR coordination of this die?

I do not have the time to read the mailing lists lately and am just 
trying to keep my code current.  Who knows, one day I may even ask Bob 
to include it in the list of digipeaters.  Aprsdigi is in use at a small 
number of sites (many of which I set up:-) in the greater NYC area and 
there have been a few others who've donwloaded it and I'd like to make 
sure it is correct.  For example, what the heck does WIDE2-1 mean in 
fix14439?  I aways though the first digit was the original value of the 
digipeat count and the second is of course the SSID which gets counted 
down to zero.  So WIDE4-4, WIDE2-2, etc. would make sense as an initial 
value.  Now I see this WIDE2-1.  My brain hurts.

/a