Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

[Alex Carver]

Forwarded as per Tom's suggestion (originally part of
a long string of emails)

--- Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:09:47 -0600
> From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
> To: Alex Carver <kf4lvz at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS
> 
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:54:30PM -0700, we
> recorded a bogon-computron collision of the
> <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> > Would Xastir show a message directed at an
> > object that it owns?
> 
> Look in db.c, the function "decode_message" --- this
> explicitly checks
> the messages "to" against our call sign (with SSID)
> and our base call
> (ignoring SSID), but does not check against any of
> our own objects.
> 
> There is no function (that I can see) that provides
> a quick check if 
> a call-sign is actually an object owned by
> ourselves, but it shouldn't
> be *that* difficult to write one and use it to
> perform an additional 
> check in that routine to make us respond to that
> message.
> 
> Thing is, we are not supposed to ACK messages sent
> to our own objects,
> just those sent to our station.  (That is something
> that Bob Bruninga
> did comment on when he was advocating using such
> objects and sending messages 
> to them during Field Day.)
> 
> You might want to take this part of your message
> back to the group for 
> discussion.


Is there a function that can return currently owned
objects?  If not, is there an array or linked list
somewhere that contains the objects in some way (this
I assume exists otherwise Xastir would never remember
its objects).


       
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