[Xastir] So, a question on all this building...

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Chris wrote:

> With a bunch of people running Ubuntu, why not just 'sudo apt-get
> install xastir' ?
>
> Is the version shipped with 9.10's repositories lacking some major features?

Can't answer that as I don't run Ubuntu nor know what version of
Xastir binary they have.


> On a side note for the list, does anyone have a good dummy's guide to
> reading and writing to the sm0 or other ax.25 devices in linux?  I do
> know it's dgram mode, but have only done a cursory look so far.
> Preferrably I'd like to access it via Perl or Python as I'm not much
> of a C guy at this point, though it seems I may need to become one for
> this project.
>
> I'd like to give a go at making a standalone APRS msg only client for
> linux, the protocol is pretty simple as I've already poked at it and
> conversed in raw UI mode doing the acks etc manually with a few
> people.

I'd suggest scanning the linux-hams mailing list on "vger", perhaps
via a Google search, to see what apps you might find there that talk
to the AX.25 kernel networking port or to a serial KISS TNC.  You
might get lucky and find non-C code to do what you want that you can
borrow from another open-source project.

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