[Xastir] Sharing serial port with Xastir

[Danny]

Hi Guys,

Prosperous new year for all ...

I have written an elaborate script trying to get gtkterm and Xastir sharing
/dev/ttyS1 ...

This is what I attempted to do:
.xinitrc
--------
- start Xastir
- get contents of /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 (store it in a BASH variable)
- clear /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 (not deleting the lock, just clear it)
- start GTKterm
- get GTKterm's PID (store it in a BASH variable)
- pipe GTKterm's PID into /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1
- do what I need to do with GTKterm and /dev/ttyS1
- clear /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1
- write Xastir's PID back into /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 (from BASH variable)
- and repeat whenever necessary ...

But this does not seem to work ... even though I am piping GTKterm's PID into
the lock file Xastir still seems to have control over /dev/ttyS1 ...

There you go ...

Danny

On Dec 23 15, Jason KG4WSV :
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:58:00 -0600
> From: Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Sharing serial port with Xastir
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> Hmm, you may be able to turn on xastir's server port, then write a script (perl is my favorite) that talks to xastir. Do some configuration of xastir to allow it to repeat these packets (originally designed to repeat weather objects, IIRC) and you may be able to get it working the way you want.
> 
> -Jason
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> -Jason
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