Re: AX.25, programming skills required to use/install/configure

From: Richard Adams (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 18:05:19 EET

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    On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Charles E. Gelm wrote about , AX.25, programming skills required to use/install/configure:
    > >
    > > You must undestand that this is the do-it-yourself system. The bricks,
    > > mortar, plans, nails, tools and everything you need is there. You must
    > > however have a few basic building skills.
    >
    > An excerpt from http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO.html
    >
    > "The Linux Operating System is perhaps the only operating system in
    > the world that can boast native and standard support for the AX.25
    > packet radio protocol utilised by Amateur Radio Operators worldwide.
    > This document aims to describe how to install and configure this
    > support."
    >
    > When it said 'native and standard support', I assumed that it meant
    > I didn't need programming skills, debugging skills, or needed to
    > edit .c, .cpp, .h source code or edit shell scripts. It seems to
    > me that you are suggesting that I need these skills to
    > utilize AX.25 with linux. :-|

    You dont really need "programming skills at all period."
    What you need to know is;

    Read the documents supplied with the archive, files like;

    INSTALL
    README

    Most archives thesedays require you to do the following,

    ./configure
    make
    make install

    Possably there are "needed configure options", however if one has read the
    flipping README or INSTALL then one will know what to do, its as simple as
    that.

    There is absolutly NO need to fool around with the supplied source code,
    its simply supplied so that hackers can do as they please with it.

    Like Tomi mentioned, use a distribution that has rpm's like redhat or
    debian, you then normally speaking do not even have to compile your own
    programs, someone else did that for you. 

    -- 
Regards Richard
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