[Packet] Linux & axports.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Would it be worth saying that minicom is the Linux equivalent of Windows'=
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HyperTerminal?  It can be used to access a phone BBs, like Telix.  If you=
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get the TNC's copyright message to print out on  a terminal  (in terminal=
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mode, not KISS mode) at least the TNC and the computer are talking to eac=
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other.  You don't use minicom to operate.

Doug.

On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 3:24 pm, Shane Deering wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 03:59, Doug Younker wrote:
> > Evidently I didn't present my question clearly. I understand that KIS=
S
> > operation lets a more powerful computer and application take over the
> > work the TNCs embedded computer does.  The person who made the first =
post
> > mentioned having trouble with minicom communicating to the TNC and th=
at
> > lead to discussion of AX25 and KISS.  What does AX25 and KISS have to=
 do
> > with an application that basically turns a computer into a dumb termi=
nal
> > not communicating properly with a TNC where the TNC handles the AX25?
>
> Nothing and that wasn't the problem. The problem was using a packet pro=
gram
> (xcall, a GUI version of call) that uses the built in kernel ax25.
> There is only one mention of minicom (which could talk to the TNC). The
> rest of the post is about using kernel ax25 (with a TNC). That means ei=
ther
> KISS or 6pack.
> If that's still not clear, imagine you were trying to get a packet prog=
ram
> to work that need to use flex or BPQ. You could use a dumb terminal to =
talk
> to the TNC, but your program didn't work. Your problem is getting BPQ o=
r
> flex to work. Not with your dumb terminal.

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