[Xastir] serial ports and tcpip

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, ke4lkq wrote:

> Yes Curt, I can run a netcat on each end but the listening end has to be
> started first in listen mode and then I get data.  Unfortunatly when trying
> to set up the network weather in xastir, when you enable it it listens for a
> couple of microseconds and doesn't give one time to go then and start the
> netcat on the other end.  You get a hard fail in xastir since no data is
> flowing or the socket doesn't exist yet.  I have yet to see an instance of
> starting the data before starting the listener to work with netcat, and I
> don't know why.

I'm talking about this:

Starting a listener connected to a pty port on the machine running
Xastir.

Start the remote end that connects back to the listener and connects
to a real serial port.  That serial port has the weather station.

Start a serial weather interface in Xastir, connected to that pty
port.

Would that work?  You're doing a serial->serial connection over the
network, only one end is a /dev/ttyS? port, the other is a
/dev/pty?? port.

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