[Ham-Mac] Re: WinLinkMac? WinLinkX?

[Chris Smolinski]

>On Apr 16, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>
>>>>1) WinLink is a proprietary system whose protocols are closed and 
>>>>unpublished, belonging to the Winlink 2000 Development Team.
>>
>>When did the FCC change the requirement for amateur radio digital 
>>transmission protocols to be open and published? I must have missed 
>>that...
>
>I was of course referring to their internal messaging protocol and 
>.NET - not pactor etc.
>At any rate it looks like Jim has already done the groundwork in this area.

Ah, OK, I misunderstood, I though you were saying that some of what 
was transmitted was using a proprietary protocol, which AFAIK would 
be a big no-no.

I am looking into adding PACTOR support to MultiMode at some point. 
Software timing seems to be the critical issue at the moment.

When/if I get that done, there would always be the possibility of 
someone writing the necessary WinLink code that uses MultiMode as the 
"modem". Such code could also use a TNC as well, of course. Since 
MultiMode now offers a TCP/IP server for passing data, it should be 
pretty easy to use it as a modem, perhaps after adding the ability to 
control the various modes via TCP/IP (or Applescript) as well.
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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com