Linux-Hams archive - January 1998: Re: Running convers from node

Re: Running convers from node

Richard Adams (ecfpp@dorotea.se)
Sun, 4 Jan 1998 22:56:16 +0000 (GMT)

According to James D. Cronin, While burning my cpu.:
>
> But when we issue the command we get:
> convers: Invalid argument
>
> Convers runs OK from a shell prompt, but doesn't seem to like having
> its input come from a pipe. For example, this:
> cat | /usr/local/bin/convers
> gives the same "convers: Invalid argument" error.
>
> Any ideas on how to run the convers client from the 'node' program?

Would not the following be easyer.

Alias CONVers "telnet %{2:host_name} 3600 \"/n %u %{1:137}\""

This logs the node_user onto the convers server with his own callsign on
channel 137.

>
> 73..Jim N2VNO
> 

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