[Xastir] Xastir with TNC-X

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, James Cameron wrote:

> These days applications are expected to receive events from the kernel
> advising them of newly plugged devices.
>
> The interfaces vary, but one popular one is D-Bus.
>
> At minimum, an application (such as XASTIR) can subscribe to the event
> stream and notice the plugging-in of known devices, in order to get the
> name.  The name can then be presented in a hint next to the field, or as
> a member of a drop-down list or option list.

Yea, great if you are always on a system with it.  What about
systems without it?  Xastir runs on a lot more besides Linux:
Solaris, FreeBSD, HP/UX, OSX, Windows...

DBUS isn't universal.  Even if it was, on recent systems, people
wouldn't be able to run Xastir on older systems if we required such.

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