[Xastir] Re: Smart digi on MacOS? (Jason Godfrey)

[Tony Hunt]

Digi_Ned will also work under windows with AGW packet engine if that can be
forced to work with a MAC.. The Windows setup is just a EXE file that runs
in a Dos window using the supplied CygWin.dll
http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~pe1dnn/#DIGI_NED

Tony Hunt VK5AH

----- Original Message ----- > Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 11:41:48 -0500
> From: "Jason Godfrey" <godfreja at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Xastir] Smart digi on MacOS?
> To: xastir at xastir.org
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> Hello.
>
> I need to temporarily setup a "smart" aprs digi using my Mac laptop. I
> understand that xastir does not support that, and the recommendation
> is to use aprsdigi. aprsdigi uses the kernel's AX25 stack, which isn't
> an option on my Mac.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for digipeating software on an Intel Mac?
>
> Thanks
> - Jason
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:06:21 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Smart digi on MacOS?
> To: Jason Godfrey <godfreja at gmail.com>
> Cc: xastir at xastir.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.58.0705081004390.12163 at eskimo.com>
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> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jason Godfrey wrote:
>
> > I need to temporarily setup a "smart" aprs digi using my Mac laptop. I
> > understand that xastir does not support that, and the recommendation
> > is to use aprsdigi.
>
> Depends on how smart you need it to be.  Xastir will work as a
> proper WIDE1-1 digipeater with callsign substitution, if you're
> running it on a Serial KISS Interface or an AX.25 interface.
>
> Another option would be Digi_ned, which runs under DOS or Linux.  If
> you have a DOS emulator running or the Linux version will compile
> under MacOSX, that might work for you.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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