[Xastir] No response to APRSD?

Curt Mills archer at eskimo.com
Sun Dec 12 21:06:44 EST 2004


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> BTW, I chose not to commit my fix to this issue, because sending lower case
> queries is in fact not compliant with the APRS spec, so xastir shouldn't be
> expected to respond to them.  I told KB7ZVA this while we were debugging.
> If we change xastir to handle every out-of-spec thing from any other code,
> it's asking for trouble.

FWIW I agree with that, but it's unfortunate as there's no way
currently or ever in the future to fix this inside UI-View, except
perhaps hex-editing the binary.  The source is no longer available.

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