RE: [Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

2007-07-19 Thread Mike Loebl
Hi Curt, No luck there either... looking closer it almost looks like it's actually some extra cr/lf preceding the missing characters, but not quite sure if this is coming across well due to email auto-formatting, this is localhost telnet on the server: - # Welcome to Xastir's

Re: [Xastir] Re: Serial Port (ttyS0) problem

2007-07-19 Thread Tate Belden
Ah!! You called it. SE disabled routinely on all my boxen. Good catch!! 73 Gerry Creager wrote: That's what you get for enabling SE Linux... I do the ugly method without complaint regularly. gerry Rodney Baker wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:30:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you can get

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Winningham
On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Jim Tolbert wrote: Does anyone know, can I change colors and symbols and show labels now, You are now ready for the wonderful world of dbfawk writing. Wiki instructions at http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:DBFAWK The original instructions I used:

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:19:08AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!! It is beautiful. The map tech thought

[Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Jim Tolbert
I am not Ham literate, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night and I have ordered the license prep manual I have read that APRS is conducted on 144.39 Hz. My assumption is that there is nothing inherent in Xastir that is tied to that frequency, but rather the frequency

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:21:26AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] flavor, containing: I am not Ham literate, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night and I have ordered the license prep manual I have read that APRS is conducted

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Gerry Creager
Neither ArcGIS nor ArcView stores color information in the shapefiles directly. As has already been pointed out: dbfawk. gerry Jim Tolbert wrote: I received the shapefiles ( from ESRI) from the local County Surveyor's office yesterday and Xastir read them right in!! It is beautiful. The

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: On Jul 19, 2007, at 2:20 PM, James Ewen wrote: Plus APRS is available for no fee to the amateur radio community, but you need to talk to Bob Bruninga about licensing it for commercial use. I thought that was for the application APRS-DOS, not

Re: [Xastir] Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Earl Needham wrote: I've just spent the last 24 hours fighting a screen resolution problem. I'm frustrated, angry, and trying not to vent on either of these mailing lists. I even though it was fixed for a while, and then it returned. At one point, I lost my

RE: [Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Mike Loebl wrote: No luck there either... looking closer it almost looks like it's actually some extra cr/lf preceding the missing characters, but not quite sure if this is coming across well due to email auto-formatting, this is localhost telnet on the server:

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread James Ewen
On 7/19/07, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jason Winningham wrote: On Jul 19, 2007, at 2:20 PM, James Ewen wrote: Plus APRS is available for no fee to the amateur radio community, but you need to talk to Bob Bruninga about licensing it for commercial use. I

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: Xastir's use of the protocols is well established and without dissent. From Bob or any of the other developers. In fact, no one has complained when anyone wanted to come up with another implementation. Hmmm. I can recall when Xastir was the bastard

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread James Ewen
On 7/19/07, Curt, WE7U [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always heard that you can't protect a protocol, but IANAL. If you have enough money you can protect whatever you want... http://www.sbszoo.com/irlp/ When we put together the local IRLP link, I created a fun logo to put on the box. Within

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread J. Lance Cotton
on 7/19/2007 3:40 PM Curt, WE7U said the following: I've always heard that you can't protect a protocol, but IANAL. The typical way of protecting (in some sense) a protocol or standard is to aggressively protect the copyright of the specification document. The actual grouping of bits or whatnot

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote: begin off-topic ranting and blathering Oh, I thought you already did! hi hi There's no possible way that OpenTRAC could interfere with APRS any more than APRS interferes with other APRS operation. I disagree with that statement, but only

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Lance Cotton
Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote: There's no possible way that OpenTRAC could interfere with APRS any more than APRS interferes with other APRS operation. I disagree with that statement, but only slightly. There's no way a properly coded APRS program would be

Re: [Xastir] Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-19 Thread Earl Needham
At 02:07 PM 7/19/2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Earl Needham wrote: snip I doubt it's Xastir. Xastir doesn't do anything related to changing screen resolution. Is there a chance you're hitting CTRLALT+ or CTRLALT- As I recall those are the commands to the X-server to change to

Re: [Xastir] Validation Code for APRS IS

2007-07-19 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks a bunch! That was easy! 73s, Eric W4OTN Bob Nielsen wrote: Run the callpass program (which should have been compiled and installed along with xastir. Syntax: callpass callsign Bob, N7XY On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Eric

Re: [Xastir] Validation Code for APRS IS

2007-07-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Run the callpass program (which should have been compiled and installed along with xastir. Syntax: callpass callsign Bob, N7XY On Jul 19, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Eric Christensen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I forget how to do this... I just setup Xastir on my shiny