[Xastir] Digipeating

[Alan Crosswell]

I haven't been following this thread, but I wanted to throw out aprsdigi.sf.net 
too.  I wrote it.
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Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:
> 
> 
>>APRSd is a very flexible and configurable Igate.  That is its primary
>>purpose and it does a pretty good job.  Its up on sourceforge too.
>>
>>
>>(Caveat - I'm one of the listed developers on APRSd)
> 
> 
> So is Chuck Byam, who's our admin for the Xastir project...
> 
> Xastir has a tiny bit of the functionality of aprsd built-in.
> That's probably all it will ever have along those lines, as we need
> no more.  Anything additional should be provided by packages such as
> aprsd and digi_ned.
> 
> In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to say people were upset, but some
> people didn't want the RELAY digipeating or the server socket to be
> put into Xastir.  I was kind of alone in wanting those at the time.
> I have a direct need for those particular functions, yet needed the
> simplest possible setup for my SAR purposes, so that's why I chose
> to incorporate those features into Xastir.  It goes against the Unix
> methodology of small/efficient tools strung together to provide a
> function.  I realized that when I coded them, but felt strongly
> enough about the end to justify the means in those particular cases.
> 
> The server socket stuff was also good practice for where we're
> headed next in Xastir development...
> 
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