[Xastir] Xwindows spew

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, James Ewen wrote:

> Since I blew away Cygwin and did a reinstall, I now have a bunch of text
> dumped out on the screen.
> I get to see a bunch of declare statements and such. It looks like it is
> settign all the environment variables, etc.
>
> What would be causing this now?

No idea.  Are you saying that X-windows doesn't come up now and you
get the text instead?  Describe it better and perhaps one of the
regular Cygwin users can help you.  I doubt I can.


> I also can't seem to get Xastir to talk to my D700 anymore. Which interface
> do I use? I thought I used serial TNC w/GPS on AUX port, but it doesn't want
> to talk to the radio anymore.

D700's have two modes, aprs and packet.  It's likely that UI-View
changed the mode of the D700.

The correct interface would be either the "Serial TNC" or the
"Serial TNC w/GPS on AUX", depending on whether you want GPS data
intermixed in there.  There is a "tnc-startup.d700" file that comes
with Xastir.  That should take you to "packet" mode on the D700
again.


> I had Xastir running, trying to talk to the D700, and then started up
> UI-View. UI-View complained about the serial port being in use, so it looks
> like Xastir had access, but it wasn't talking.

The TNC probably got slammed into APRS mode.


> What language is the tnc-startup.d700 file written in? I know the commands
> that the D700 understands, but where can I find info on the META commands,
> etc
>
> Specifically, lines starting with # are usually comments.
> Is this line commented out, or is it acted upon?
> ## META <delay>

Acted upon.  In our case we look for "##META" as a special command.
So far we only allow:

    ##META delay
    ##META no-ctrl-c

"delay" causes a sleep for 500ms.  "no-ctrl-c" keeps it from sending
a control-C for the next command.  The default is to send a ctrl-c
before every line to make sure the TNC is in command mode.

Other than that, they're just TNC commands, with comments
interspersed.

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