Telnet to conversd works, but why bother when all the nice features are
missing?
73..Jim N2VNO
On Jan 4, 11:48am, Heikki Hannikainen wrote:
> Subject: Re: Running convers from node
> On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, James D. Cronin wrote:
>
> > We're trying to run Tampa Ping-Pong convers at our Linux/AX25 node.
> > The conversd server runs just fine. Our /etc/ax25/node.conf file
> > has an external command to run /usr/local/bin/convers, the client
> > with the "pipe" flag set to 1.
>
> You shouldn't need the convers client under node. The alias for
> "CONVers" to telnet as seen in the example node.conf works just fine. You
> can get it to log the user in and do everything else you'd expect the
> convers client to do in this case...
>
> The problem is probably that the convers client would like to be
> connected to a terminal, and control the terminal too, but you cannot do
> such things on a pipe.
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Heikki Hannikainen