[Xastir] Re: The Future, How soon?

[William Baguhn]

> *) Message client.  This talks to the storage module and allows
> sending receiving bulletins and messages.  Multiple clients can be
> run at the same time.

Can I suggest that having a little tiny command line message client would
be a very good thing indeed? 
That way, I can be running Xastir at home, and when my home computer
recognizes that weather spotters will be needed tonight,
I can have a batch program run the messaging system, and send a quick message
and inform my mobile computer (and everyone else's, too).

Other uses exist as well (magic gating of short email messages (some filtering
required like Subject: 2APRS only), automated forwarding of NWS
bulletins/alerts to APRS network, and likely a bunch of things I'll
think of next week), but it all seems to hinge on not having to sit down at
a console and ten-finger interface the message from one system to another.

(I'm not quite bright enough to understand how to write this myself,
utilizing the existing aprsd as a base, and the APRS spec.  The
APRS spec is somewhat... obtuse.)


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