Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Oct 10, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Ray Wells wrote: I run KISS only EPROM's in 4 MFJ1270B's on my Linux system. I found the KISS only EPROM offered two advantages over a Native Mode EPROM that contained KISS. 1. The TNC never comes out of KISS mode unexpectedly. 2. The KISS only EPROM solved man

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Ray Wells
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: None of the developers have felt the need (so far) to have configurable files to set up a TNC for KISS/take it back out of KISS mode when starting/stopping interfaces. If they had the code would have been written by now. Mos

Re: [Xastir] help !

2006-10-10 Thread mike sullivan
Kyle Kienapfel wrote: No idea what you want to know, but I did a search for APRS Glossary: http://info.aprs.net/wikka.php?wakka=Glossary Also not sure if theres a guide on the xastir wiki Ah! a work in progess. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/XASTIR_Manual I guess we're collectively workin

Re: [Xastir] help !

2006-10-10 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
No idea what you want to know, but I did a search for APRS Glossary: http://info.aprs.net/wikka.php?wakka=Glossary Also not sure if theres a guide on the xastir wiki Ah! a work in progess. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/XASTIR_Manual I guess we're collectively working on the docs for anyth

[Xastir] help !

2006-10-10 Thread mike sullivan
What with the last couple of days posts about maps and formats I find myself with serious acronym overload. For those like my self who are just starting on the whole aprs venture an explanation or pointer to a dictionary. Please. Even if I'm not totally sure what I'm reading I do my best to plow

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > So who's going to try it first? > > Onna youse guys with Linux, Macs, or Losedows? BSD ain't on the list. Problee' outn't be me. Too many irons in the fire right now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:21:04PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Properly installed with gdal built against it, it means you could use > > gdal_translate to uncompress MrSIDs into geotiff

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: > So who's going to try it first? Whoever does, keep good notes. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Properly installed with gdal built against it, it means you could use > gdal_translate to uncompress MrSIDs into geotiff or anything else. So who's going to try it first? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:36:53PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > > >There is a GDAL plug-in that allows the MrSID SDK to be used, but that > >plug-in is only available on linux and Losedows.

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:31:20PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > >On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > > >>GDAL might be able to link against a MrSID SDK, which would mean it

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: There is a GDAL plug-in that allows the MrSID SDK to be used, but that plug-in is only available on linux and Losedows. When xastir supports www.kyngchaos.com/macosx/install/mrsid suggests otherwise. I should download the DSDK and try it, and maybe this

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote: GDAL might be able to link against a MrSID SDK, which would mean it would come along for free with GDAL raster support, but I'd still like to find a free format with good compression to use instead. As a ma

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > It's only states that take USGS data, massage them in ArcGIS, then compress > them with MrSID where the DOQQs are unusable without special tweaking. Or places that tweak the files with ESRI software but don't do the MrSID compression, which is the sort of f

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The nice thing about those EPROMS is that they don't mysteriously > drop out of KISS mode unexpectedly. > Unfortunately KISS EPROM images are only available for TAPR TNC2s and > their many clones (MFJ, DRSI. Paccomm, Symek). I _think_ the PK-88's had a KI

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: None of the developers have felt the need (so far) to have configurable files to set up a TNC for KISS/take it back out of KISS mode when starting/stopping interfaces. If they had the code would have been written by now. Most people that run KIS

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Dan Brown wrote: > I'd sorta guess it just isn't a Creature which has been Feeped > yet, and also would guess it might also be something to be > documented in a clearer manner. That pretty much sums it up. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~arche

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Mark Miller wrote: > Is there a file that can be edited to configure the start and stop > parameters for the Serial Kiss TNC interface? I am using a Tracker2 > and would like to be able to bring this TNC in and out of Kiss > mode. The command to put this TNC in Kiss mode is K

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > There is a GDAL plug-in that allows the MrSID SDK to be used, but that > plug-in is only available on linux and Losedows. When xastir supports > gdal rasters it could theoretically make use of that SDK for anyone who > was willing to install it and build GD

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > GDAL might be able to link against a MrSID SDK, which would mean it would > come along for free with GDAL raster support, but I'd still like to find a > free format with good compression to use instead. As a matter of fact you can do the MrSID stuf

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:10:22AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > >On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bennett, Bruce wrote: > > > >>Does anyone just happen to be working on '.sid' support for xastir a the

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:59:20AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bennett, Bruce wrote: > > > Does anyone just happen to be working on '.sid' support for xastir a the > > moment? It would be nice to save disk spa

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bennett, Bruce wrote: Does anyone just happen to be working on '.sid' support for xastir a the moment? It would be nice to save disk space for other needs by keeping them in compressed form... No. Anything which costs money is gener

Re: [Xastir] further question please

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Mike Fenske wrote: > Yes, you should be able to use it. I have used it on an old laptop > with SuSE 7.3. I had it set up as an AX.25 device and it works > fine with xastir. I'm not sure if the Kubuntu kernel is configured > for AX25 devices. If not, I think you can get Xastir t

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Miller wrote: > Thanks. I wrote a Perl Script to get my Tracker2 out of KISS > mode. I sent C0 FF C0 by using \xC0\xFF\xC0. xastir/scripts/kiss-off.pl -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at

Re: [Xastir] MrSid format DRG maps

2006-10-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bennett, Bruce wrote: > Does anyone just happen to be working on '.sid' support for xastir a the > moment? It would be nice to save disk space for other needs by keeping them > in compressed form... No. Anything which costs money is generaly out for the Xastir project. Anyth