[Xastir] TNC setup and maps

[John Place]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Chris Abbott wrote:
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>>Hey, I just recently purchased a MFJ-1270, TNC 2 TNC. I was wondering
>>how do you setup up the Ax.25 protocol in Linux to read off of
>>/dev/tnc(which is really a link to /dev/ttyS0).
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>Check the AX.25 HOWTO document.  After digesting that and trying a
>few things, post your progress and additional questions to the list.
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>>Also, I just recently
>>updated xastir and now all of my maps are gone, it won't pull from the
>>Internet for maps, but it does get packets successfully thorough with
>>the IGate option.
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>Read the latest "UPGRADE" document in the "Xastir 1.2.1 or later
>CVS" section (near the end).  You might have to read the version in
>the Browse CVS area on SourceForge to see the newest version of the
>UPGRADE file (rev 1.8).  Check that your paths to the map files are
>correct.
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>Check that ImageMagick got compiled in if you want to use internet
>map images.
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>For the future:
>I'm wondering if there's a simple way to have Xastir either check
>for map directories in common places that don't match the paths in
>the user's config file?  We might have to compile a list of "normal"
>install locations for various distributions in order to do this.
>/usr/local/xastir/maps is one old path.  I suspect /usr/xastir/maps
>is the SuSE RPM package install location?  Others?
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My Xastir 1.30 has map directory under /usr/local/share/xastir. Running 
OS Mandrake 9.2.

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