I'm using TNT with kernel-ax25 support, it's not perfect but does the job.
It gives so much more than call, for the same price - so why settle for
less? Thanks, Mark (DL4YBG)!
> Why bother using a "terminal program", the call program has a splitscreen
> (by default) allows you to get 7+ files use yapp and save incomming stuff
> to file.
Well, I must admit that I never considered "call" as some kind of a serious
program - it's nice when you install ax25-utils and need something for
testing, but to use it day in-day out? There are lots of things I do every
day call can't handle - or should I check "man call" again?
Using call, how do you:
- scrollback? Never figured it out, but I believe it can be done...
- not press the wrong key? I do sometimes, and the screen goes nuts...
- connect to passwd-protected mailbox without lots of typing?
- talk to more than one friend without multiple instances of call?
- record incomming connects? Ok, node accepts the connection and...?
- monitor traffic as you talk to someone without switching consoles?
- avoid constant typing of the same callsigns and other things?
- connect with a single keystroke? (ok, this looks like previous one)
- lots of other thing I'm not using or can't remember right now?
As I see it, call is not sophisticated enough for everyday use. Maybe it
will be some day, but that day is not in the very near future. And I don't
like the idea to use one program for outgoing connects and another for
accepting incoming calls... sorry.
> Futhermore the "node" program has MANY uses and allows incomming connects
> to just about anything you care to define via an alias or an extcmd.
Node is great, but it can't do everything. What if I need FLEXNET support, or
something like that? Should all other developers of linux PR software give
up because "just about everything" can be done with those few programs in
ax25-utils? Maybe even ax25-utils don't have to be developed any further, for
the perfection is already reached?
>
> Using GP under dosemu with a baycom modem will probably lead to a lot of
> missed and maybe even corrupted packets this depending on the speed of your
> CPU and how you decide to allow dosemu to work.
I'm not using baycom for PR in Linux, can't tell...
73's!
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