[Ham-Mac] Exciting news for EchoMac!

[Jim Tittsler]

On Nov 9, 2004, at 01:38, Steven Palm wrote:
> Jim Tittsler, 7J1AJH/AI8A, who has already made several minor 
> improvements,

And we should stress they are minor.  I really appreciate the work 
Steve did bringing EchoLink to the Mac, and setting up the SourceForge 
project to archive and distribute the source code.  I don't have any 
ambitious plans for EchoMac, but welcome suggestions, bug reports (and 
participation!).

A few months ago there were a couple of user interface quirks that 
bugged me, so I grabbed the source and was able to fix them.  More 
recently I wanted to add (optional) Growl <http://growl.info/> 
notifications for some events (since EchoMac typically gets buried on 
my desktop).  You can get the source files directly from the head of 
the SourceForge project CVS tree.  I've also built a test binary for 
10.2 and 10.3 which is available from 
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93900>
Don Argo of Dog Park Software has generously offered to continue 
hosting future versions of EchoMac, but I'd like a little feedback 
before passing him an "official" release.

I've also started on some Help Files, but the only issue that has come 
up repeatedly on this list is using EchoMac with a firewall and/or 
router, so the Help is quite meagre.  If there was an issue that have 
troubled you getting EchoMac going, please mail me and we'll document 
it so that it doesn't trip up others.

-- 
Jim Tittsler  7J1AJH/AI8A  Tokyo                     GPG: 0x01159DB6
http://www.qsl.net/7j1ajh/                          AMSAT/NZART
EchoLink #192382 (or often listening to one of the links
      in the *TIARA* conference, #63679)