Paul, Thanks for the encouragement and advice. I had been debating about whether Cygwin or Msys would be a better development platform for porting linux applications. I have also been reading your ARQ protocol proposal from the pskmail website, and look forward to being able to try it out.
In the mean time, I will be working on an idea Leigh gave me concerning psk63srv as a backend for pskmail, maybe using a program in the background to write and read files for pskmail, and telnet the information to/from port 3131. I had previously tried using the stock psk31srv, and found that you needed to format your input like an ax.25 UI packet (well, at at least include a ">:" at the start of the text). After thinking about it, you could probably append "PSMAIL0>:" to the beginning of a ARQ frame, and send it to psk63srv. The pskmail program on the receiver end should ignore everyting before the initial <SOH>, and APRS users would get a head-up that this was not a position report (station ID being handled in the ARQ frame). Will probably be able to work on this more after I go off backshift in a few weeks. 73, KC0HOS - Jim --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Paul L Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A few months back, I was playing around with Cygwin (right after gMFSK > added Olivia and when there was NO graphical Windows Olivia program), > and had it "almost" running with Cygwin and the Cygwin GTK libraries. > It was going to be bare-bones (i.e. built without gnome and hamlib > functionality), but it was looking promising. The Cygwin soundcard > interface allows using the soundcard as a *nix device -- ioctls, etc. > (that's how the original Olivia code did it), and GTK is supported... > so it's really not that unlikely. Unfortunately, I've just been > time-constrained and not had much time to play on the computer much > (including the MT63-ARQ project). Too many other obligations (work, > family, church, MARS, RACES, ARES) requiring my time. > > 73, > > Paul / K9PS (3,619 days until retirement) > > Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: > > I think a > > more forward-looking approach would be to use port 3131 for data and > > another port for control/status and get the protocol implemented by PSK > > Deluxe. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ More info at http:///www.obriensweb.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
