Linux-Hams archive - April 1998: Re: QST content (was: Announcement: TCP/IP over Morse driver

Re: QST content (was: Announcement: TCP/IP over Morse driver

Richard Adams (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:19:47 +0000 (GMT)

According to Charles Greene: While burning my CPU.
>
>
> What you say about QST and computers is true, but the problem with LINUX is
> the lack of ham applications. Take my case, for example: I use some
> programs that conrol my HF rig and log DX, and I have some satellite
> programs that track the birds, point the antenna and tune the rig. Of
> course, I can use TNOS or LINUX for TCP/IP, but how about those other
> programs I paid good money for? I can't replace them with LINUX programs,
> yet. So what does one do? In my case, I end up wih one LINUX machine
> running TCP/IP and one Win95 machine (or OS2 machine) with Windows/DOS
> programs for the rest.

Well some programs, not all will run under dosemu and i belive also wine
alto' i have never used wine.
I have run K1EA Contest log, Dxcluster and packet apps under dosemu tho.
But one does run into problems with all dos programs under dosemu at some
time or other, some of the problems can be helpt with beter config options
some cant.

>
> What we need is a concerted effort to port some of the good commercial Ham
> applications to LINUX, Logic 5 for example. Also we need a central site
> for downloading free/shareware, and references to those commercial aps
> which have been ported to LINUX. Any suggestions on how to do this?
> 73's

Take a look at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HAM-HOWTO.html or look in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/ you might even have it there, it has some info which might
suprise you.

>
> Chas, w1cg
>
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Regards Richard.
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