[Xastir] Compiling Xastir on OSX and remote TNC access

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:09:02AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mfenske at telus.net> flavor, containing:
> Well, if you can't get remserial compiled on OSX, you could try using socat. 
> 
> Although it's not OSX based, see Tom's posting here about using socat:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/xastir@lists.xastir.org/msg01180.html

I know that remserial doesn't compile under FreeBSD, a system that has more
in common with OS X than Linux does.  But socat works fine on BSD and probably
works fine on OS X.  I use it to share the TNC on my SheevaPlug running Ubuntu
with Xastir on the BSD machine.  

http://www.bogodyn.org/blog/

has a few more details, and I managed to simplify it considerably since that
first posting.

Also, you can look into "ldsped" to run on your linux machine if it's an x86
machine --- right now ldsped is only available in binary form as a beta release.
With it you can share your Linux machine's TNC across a network just like
AGWPE.

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