Hello Tadd,
I would generally agree but that's not what the person wanted.? He
wants to use an Apple //e as a serial terminal into something that
emulates a TNC.? There are lots of Linux-native and via-TCP/IP
ways to offer packet radio interfaces be it TCP-KISS, AGW, and
then moving up the stack: the native axcall and beacon tools, on
the TUI side there is Linpac, and getting into GUIs there is
EasyTerm, BPQTermTCP, etc.? None of those will work with an Apple
//e.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 12/02/2021 03:54 PM, Tadd KA2DEW in
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I don¡¯t think we need the cmd: prompt, but using it in a KPC-3
kind-of way would call for a command interface to:?
specify connect path,?
initiate connections,?
disconnections,?
and then a display of text that is received,?
and a typing area to send text. ?
The FRACK, DWAIT, PPERSIST, SLOT, RETRIES, TXDELAY,
and all that could stay in a nice concise INI file. ?
? ?Tadd?
Interesting challenge!? I have an old pre-IBM computer
(a 1977-era MAI Jolt) and TV Typewriter system that
still works.? It would be cool to do some packet radio
with it.
I think what you might do is to use the internal
serial port on the Raspberry Pi (GPIO 14 Tx, 15 Rx) to
get a Linux serial console into the Pi, or a USB
serial dongle if that's handy.? The tty consoles are
enabled in the Pi's config; they default off.? Connect
that to the Apple serial port and its TTY emulator.?
Once you can log into the Pi, you can run axcall to
connect to the packet nodes, or potentially linpac to
do the multi-session stuff if the terminal emulator
supports the right TTY model.
Have fun!
Greg? KO6TH
Rob Giuliano via wrote:
You
need to be more specific in what you expect
from Direwolf.
the
cmd: prompt was used to change settings in the
old hardware TNCs.
Most
of those settings are now in the Direwolf.ini
file (or the ini file you specify on the
command line with '-c').
Are
you just trying to put Direwolf in the old K
(converse) mode to have keyboard-to-keyboard
QSOs?
Or
are you expecting that your terminal program
will be able to change some (or all) of the
parameters set in the ini file?
These
would be things like: MYCALL, BTEXT, DIGI
?
These 'may' or 'may not' make sense for
Direwolf.
For
QSOs, if your APPLE IIe terminal program
allows connection through TCP/IP, you could
try connecting that way.?
Hey,
I'm running Direwolf 1.6 on a Rasberry Pi 4
and I would like to see if its possible to
use this Pi as a traditional
Kantronics/Paccomm esque TNC (with the
"cmd:" type prompt via a USB-Serial adapter.
I have a terminal program running on my
Apple //e Enhanced from 1982 and would like
to control direwolf as if it were a TNC from
the 80s. Is this possible? (Ignore the fact
that I'm using an Apple II, I would like
this setup to work with any serial terminal)
Thanks!
