Linux-Hams archive - November 1997: Re: Prompt in linux-node ?

Re: Prompt in linux-node ?

Leszek A. Szczepanowski SQ9ANR ()
Mon, 03 Nov 97 12:02:53 +0100 (LOC)


In reply to <qifop.rzgk@santarosa.edu> from ieta.ctjkjwabfw@painewebber.com:

> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Leszek A. Szczepanowski SQ9ANR wrote:
> > And I don't want prompt to display how many users are logged
> > in, but I want the prompt because every others nodes in the
> > world has prompt. I don't know WHY linux node has no prompt ???
> You have a small view of 'the world'... The world here (which runs
> TheNet and BPQ) has no prompts, and never has had. Your world (which runs
> something like FlexNet, or TheNetNode, or something) might have prompts,
> but that's not 'the whole world'.

Like your world is not the whole world too! All Europe runs Flexnets,
or dumb Baycom-node software, and both has prompts. Imagine about
Linux system with shell without prompt. Or even DOS or OS/2 command
line without prompt. After some time working with this should
make you crazy :-)

> LinuxNode tries to look like a TheNet or a BPQ node (for the user
> interface part). It does it quite well. But it's different from the
> software used in your part of the world... You can quite easily modify the
> code to look a bit like your software, if you really want to. But we here
> are not that interested in doing that, for the very same reasons as you...

Yes, I'm going to modify the code, to have some prompt.
I know that are alternatives for node like TNN 1.74,
but TNN is incompatible with ax25 used in kernel. If I
get node which is compatible with flexnet and runs under
ax25d, then I stop use linux-node which is probably only
node settable in ax25d.conf.

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