Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread petervn
o.biz Onderwerp: Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic Hi Jim, Keep up the pressure. It's kinda amusing to read about PowerSDR regressions in one mail, and the lack of formal api's and documentation in the next. I spent a life time (successfully) developing complex

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Frank Brickle
Rob Dennison wrote: > Grab the cash! And stop bloviating myself? Not for a million bucks. Well, maybe. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Rob Dennison
Hi Frank, Grab the cash! Rob On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:20:09 -0400 Frank Brickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Dennison wrote: > > > Keep up the pressure. > > I don't think you quite understand. There *is* no leverage here. > There are only two things that matter: (1) lines of working sou

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Frank Brickle
Rob Dennison wrote: > Keep up the pressure. I don't think you quite understand. There *is* no leverage here. There are only two things that matter: (1) lines of working source code (2) cash. *Every*thing else is bloviation. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ Flex

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-11 Thread Rob Dennison
Hi Jim, Keep up the pressure. It's kinda amusing to read about PowerSDR regressions in one mail, and the lack of formal api's and documentation in the next. I spent a life time (successfully) developing complex hardware/SW systems. We never ever allowed prototypers to develop production SW

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: > OK.. but that shows giving an error like "badarg" (if I feed you a float > when you want an int, for instance).. but, where is the information > about the semantics of a message (e.g. is it Hz or MHz) maintained? Sorry, the free answer line has run out. Further details available

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 03:49 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: > > > Is it the intention to follow these recommendations? > >The model we're following is the source distribution for ejabberd. So, then, we can expect to need to create (or read) something along the lines of http://www.process-one.net

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 03:39 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: > > > I note that Thompson's thesis makes lots of mention of WBF (Well Behaved > > Functions) implemented within OTP that raise exceptions when the > > specification doesn't describe what's supposed to happen in the > > circumstances tha

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: > Is it the intention to follow these recommendations? The model we're following is the source distribution for ejabberd. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/fle

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: > I note that Thompson's thesis makes lots of mention of WBF (Well Behaved > Functions) implemented within OTP that raise exceptions when the > specification doesn't describe what's supposed to happen in the > circumstances that have occurred. (p126, Rule2)... I think you mean Arm

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 02:37 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: > > > (Which seems to put a huge burden on the receiving node's error > > reporting infrastructure) > >Lifting that burden is one of OTP's main jobs. ALthough Thompson seems to assert that the receiving node is supposed to put enough de

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 02:34 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Jim Lux wrote: > > > And presumably, those messages to the DSP software and RF hardware are > > defined somewhere? (if only implicitly in the fact that sender node and > > receiver node have consistent software that has common semantics, i.e. > > is Fre

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: > (Which seems to put a huge burden on the receiving node's error > reporting infrastructure) Lifting that burden is one of OTP's main jobs. 73 Frank AB2KT ___ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/m

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Jim Lux wrote: > And presumably, those messages to the DSP software and RF hardware are > defined somewhere? (if only implicitly in the fact that sender node and > receiver node have consistent software that has common semantics, i.e. > is Frequency in MHz or Hz, etc.) Of course. The significant

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 01:10 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Bob Tracy wrote: > > > The code I'm playing with now runs a little differently, it interfaces > > directly with the radio API (whatever that turns out to be). I have been > > using an API of my own design for testing in lieu of anything concrete from >

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Lux
At 12:49 PM 10/10/2007, Frank Brickle wrote: >Bob Tracy wrote: > > > The co >(2) A little chunk of data arrives at the node's doorstep. The >node is then responsible for making sense of the CAT command >according to *its own* internal model of the radio. In other >words, it's this node that thin

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Bob Tracy wrote: > The code I'm playing with now runs a little differently, it interfaces > directly with the radio API (whatever that turns out to be). I have been > using an API of my own design for testing in lieu of anything concrete from > the Flex guys. It probably will have to change give

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Brickle
Bob Tracy wrote: > The code I'm playing with now runs a little differently, it interfaces > directly with the radio API (whatever that turns out to be). I have been > using an API of my own design for testing in lieu of anything concrete from > the Flex guys. It probably will have to change give

Re: [Flexradio] Spam: Question about CAT/Console logic

2007-10-10 Thread Bob Tracy
Jim, I replied directly to you with a relatively long message before I saw you had posted this on the reflector. I repeat it here less the attachments. . Jim, Yes, that is the basic strategy for all CAT commands in the current architecture. Some of the console properties were in ex