[Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:35:25PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> The question was, does Xastir respond to a directed
> station query ?APRSS and, if so, where is the reply
> programmed in the config menus?

No.  Xastir does not respond to APRSS.  If you look in db.c, you will see
this block of code:

// NOT IMPLEMENTED YET
    // Check for proper usage of the APRSS query
    if (!ok && strncmp(message,"APRSS",5)==0) {
        ok = 1;
    }

I guess nobody who cared about that directed query ever had time to implement
it.  The implementation would go right before the "ok = 1" line.  Thing is
that Xastir doesn't currently support a station status, so you'd also have
to implement that before being able to return it with a query response.

At this time, there's only a few queries that Xastir responds to.  Looking
at db.c, I see these are:
  ?VER   (return software version)
  ?APRSD (return list of stations heard direct)
  ?APRSP (force a position report)
  ?APRST or ?PING   (return a trace)

> I've got a separate question, too:
> 
> In File -> Configure -> Defaults, there's a text box
> to the right of "Pop up new bulletins" without a
> label.  Currently it has "XASTIR" in it.  What is it? 
> (ver 1.9.0)

I never really looked at that very carefully, but it really is a confusing
layout.  The thing in the line edit box is meant to be the alternate net
name, and is meant to go with the check box directly above it, "Activate 
Alternate Net?"

>From the help file (Help->Help Index->Configure Default Operation):

  You can also select "Activate alternate net?" and choose an altnet call from
  this dialog. Altnet allows you to have a private APRS(tm) network among the
  stations that also have altnet configured, and have the same altnet call
  entered.

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