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Re: Very simple, low level texting possible??

Stan Ham
 

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Hi David,

Thanks for the info.? It's been a long day for my learning curve on digital packet. I need to break off for today, and hit it again tomorrow.

It is starting to sound like what I am looking for does not exist (using packet radio in a manner like a texting app on my cell phone).

I am interested in learning how to do this whether Linux or Windows for a number of reasons.? For one, I use dual boot on my computers, and can choose Win7 or Kubuntu.? In my radio club, we are all individuals, with all the differences that go therewith. Most, of course normally use Windows.? Some, like me, prefer Linux. A very few are very technical, but most, not so much, and a few, like me, are just technical enough to be dangerous.? When we deploy for ARES practice operations, it would be very useful to have such a capability as I have described for use at the very beginning of setting up operations, until all parties are up and running on the final platform.... like maybe Winlink Express, or whatever.

My hunch is that something Java based might be the most universally deployable across OS platforms.

Tomorrow, I will look into your suggestions, including YAAC, which sounds somewhat promising, except it apparently comes along with all the overhead of the mapping, etc, etc.

It is starting to sound like that a TNC needs to have data sent to it in some sort of required formatting, and thus needing an application to take just plain typing text, and formatting it into acceptable form for ANY TNC.

73's for now,

Stan


On 12/13/2016 08:02 PM, David Ranch dranch@... [direwolf_packet] wrote:

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Hello Stan,

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With physical TNC's there is a serial connection from the computer to
the TNC, whereby an operator can go into a "command" mode interaction
between the computer and the TNC. Is this possible with direwolf on
linux


With Direwolf alone, no, this isn't possible.? Now, if you install LinBPQ and the TNC2 emulator package, yes, it's possible.? ? The BPQ32 package is very powerful but from the sounds of your use case, it could be like killing a fly with a sledgehammer but the choice is up to you.?


I would like to learn how, if even possible, to do very simple "texting"
in this manner, keyboard to keyboard via a digipeater without any other
software involved.


I assume you want to send just strings of text out on your packet channel?? On a physical TNC, you could do this with the "unproto" command (sends UI frames).? If you have Direwolf configured to work with the Linux AX.25 stack, you can use the "beacon" program to send those strings.? You can also use the Linpac program with the Linux native AX.25 stack to send UI packets as well as use it's dedicated F10 UI-mode screen.?? There are also other programs out there that can use Direwolf's KISS interface directly like UI-Chat or LinkUp - or even D-RATS (does a lot more than just D-star).? There are other programs out there but I don't want to choke you with too may options.


Can I do this with direwolf whether linux or windows, and is so, how?


You have to make some decision here.? Which environment do you want to use?? Windows or Linux??
Thinking a little longer term, do you want to ultimately run a BBS (BPQ32) or would you rather only have a packet client (Linpac)?? Maybe you would want a more pretty UI to send the packets (LinkUp, UI-Chat, D-RATS)


--David
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