[Xastir] Only seeing posits of path APZ256 | 7

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:20:24PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rickbol at hotmail.com> flavor, containing:
> OK, now I see what's happening.
> 
> The rare posits that are displayed have the callsign preceded by "}" (no
> quotes)... so the framing is not config'd properly cause the "}" would be a
> terminating character for the previous packet.
> 
[...]
> 
> Anyone slayed this demon before?

Sorry, can't help you there.  But this one I can answer:

> Also, is there a cmd interface to the tnc from within Xastir?

No, there isn't.  You'd need to use a terminal program outside of xastir
to tinker with the TNC directly.  I usually use "cu" on linux machines,
but there are many others.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> To: "Rick Bolen (HM)" <rickbol at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "Xastir Users" <xastir at xastir.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Only seeing posits of path APZ256 | 7
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Rick Bolen (HM) wrote:
> >
> > > When I've fired up my UI-View32, I see dozens of local packets.
> > >
> > > It's like there is a filter enabled or something. Or could there be a
> TNC
> > > setting I need to init?
> >
> > In Xastir's "View Incoming Data" dialog are you seeing one line for
> > each packet coming in, or two?  If each packet produces two lines
> > from the TNC to Xastir, that's the problem.  Generally APRS programs
> > need all of the information on one line.
> >
> > It's a TNC setting.  You might want to look at the tnc-startup.d700
> > or tnc-startup.thd7 files to see what settings you might want to use
> > for the 2000.  Once you figure it out, create a tnc-startup.2000
> > file with the settings and tell Xastir to use that on startup of
> > that interface.
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> > "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> > "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
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> >
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