[Xastir] dropping TNC out of KISS mode ?

[Daniel H. Brown]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:08:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> To: Tapio Sokura <oh2kku at iki.fi>
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] dropping TNC out of KISS mode ?
> 
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Tapio Sokura wrote:
>
>> I think just about all KISS TNCs drop out of KISS when the characters
>> 0xc0, 0xff, 0xc0 are sent to it using the right serial port speed (a
>> part of the KISS specification?). Assuming of course that the TNC has
>> other modes than just KISS..
>>
>> Could this functionality be added to Xastir, i.e. the user could select
>> an option in the serial kiss tnc properties dialog, which would send the
>> three-byte string whenever the TNC interface is shut down. And perhaps
>> there could be an initialization setting as well, so you could specify
>> an "init string" like you had with land line modems, that would turn the
>> TNC into KISS mode. That would be run whenever the interface is started.
>
> It's on the feature request list.
>

My xastir distro includes a "kiss-off.pl" script, under the scripts dir,
fwiw.


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