[Xastir] interface.c

Mike Fenske mike_fenske at telus.net
Tue Sep 19 23:51:06 EDT 2006


Thanks Tom. I just did a CVS update and it's working fine again.

Mike
VE7MKF

At 09:16 PM 19/09/06 -0600, Tom Russo wrote:
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>On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:05:34PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>> Are you running an AX.25 port?

>> Yes.
>
>My claim that I was seeing this on my home machine was false --- I 
>misunderstood what you were pointing out here.
>
>The code in data_out_ax25 tries to parse the MYCALL line that 
>output_my_aprs_data produces, and it was getting confused by the fact that
>there was a carriage return at the beginning of the line --- it is looking
>for a carriage return as the delimiter at the end of the line, and assuming
>that whatever comes immediately before it is the callsign.
>
>Naturally, when I stuck a \r at the beginning of the line, that meant that 
>AX25 ports started thinking that there *WAS* no callsign.
>
>I just checked in a quick fix that refrains from putting in the \r if the
>port is an AX.25 port, but puts it in if it's a regular TNC.
>
>The right way to fix this would be to change data_out_ax25 so it isn't 
>confused by the leading \r.
>
>Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/




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