[Xastir] "relay digipeat" option?

Kirk Mefford kc2elo at softhome.net
Thu Nov 13 14:51:17 EST 2003


At 12:58 PM 11/13/2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Kirk Mefford wrote:
>
> > I noticed on Xastir that the "relay digi" option on the AGW tnc mode is
> > grayed out.  Will Xastir not work with AGW well enough to digi or is there
> > more to it?
>
>There's more to it.  In order to use AGWPE as a digi, we have to
>implement an entirely different message frame to/from AGWPE.  The
>frame we're currently using doesn't pass enough header information
>to us in order to implement digipeating.

Oh well.  Just wondering.  There is digipeater software available for AGW 
but it isn't all that great.
Maybe I'll try running the tnc straight to the serial port... I just seem 
to remember cygwin not acting right the last time I checked.




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