[Xastir] AGW under WINE ?

Ray Wells vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Sat Apr 18 20:05:44 EDT 2009


It was a very poor choice of words, Norm.

I apologise to you and the group for not being a lot more careful.

Ray vk2tv

Norm, VK3XCI wrote:
> Low blow Ray,
>
> It doesn't become you at all!
>
> To me, Linux, Xastir et al. are simply tools to get a job done, not 
> the job itself.
>
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> 73 de Norm, VK3XCI
> Mildura, Australia
> The Wintersun City
> QF15bt.
>
> Ray Wells wrote:
>> Let's not confuse operating system ability with user ability
>>
>> Ray vk2tv
>>
>>
>> Norm, VK3XCI wrote:
>>> Usability is what's missing. This is my experience and your mileage 
>>> may differ.
>>>
>>> After literally years of trying I have never got "soundmodem" to 
>>> work in either AX25 kernel or userspace mode.
>>>
>>> AGWPE on the otherhand "just works" For those portable occasions 
>>> such as WICEN exercises I have an OLD Toshiba lappy who's sole job 
>>> is to run UIview with AGWPE. and I might add, thats about all it's 
>>> capable of... BTW, runs HF packet just fine too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 de Norm, VK3XCI
>>> Mildura, Australia
>>> The Wintersun City
>>> QF15bt.
>>>
>>> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Robert Rogers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been toying with the idea too...  Not much in the linux world 
>>>>> that has
>>>>> the functionality AGW has...
>>>>
>>>> In terms of what, handling hardware TNC's, or doing software-based
>>>> packet?
>>>>
>>>> For the former, you can do multiple AX.25 KISS ports with the Linux
>>>> kernel.
>>>>
>>>> For the latter, there's "soundmodem" and "hfmodem".
>>>>
>>>> So... What's missing?
>>>>
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