Am I getting out to HAM?

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Am I getting out to HAM?

Yes, looks good.

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On 10-31-20 05:44, HusTler wrote to All <=-

Am I getting out to HAM?

Bit scratchy. ;P


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On 08-17-20 08:49, Phoobar wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Testing gateway in automatic mode. Got it running using Xvfb as a dummy
X server for DOSBox. As a bonus, it's much faster to load. :)

You piqued my interest when you mentioned using DOSBox to do this. I've got some of the tweaked builds available with networking & such. Not looking for exact directions...but is there a way you can explain how
you were able to do this using DOSBox?

I used a combination of a shell script outside and an autoexec file on the inside of DOSBox to do the batch jobs.

Hete's the shell script.

#!/bin/bash

#export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dummy
TEST=YES
mv /mystic/echomail/out/fsxnet.015/0001008f.pnt/*.pkt /mystic/echomail/blkhole mv /mystic/echomail/out/vkradio.1b0/00010064.pnt/*.pkt /mystic/echomail/blkhole if [ "$TEST" = "YES" ]; then
cp /mystic/echomail/blkhole/*.pkt /mystic/echomail/backup
fi
rm -f /mystic/echomail/out/fsxnet.015/0001008f.pnt/00000063.*
rm -f /mystic/echomail/out/vkradio.1b0/00010064.pnt/00000063.*
xvfb-run dosbox -conf ~/.dosbox/echogate.conf -exit
if [ "$TEST" = "YES" ]; then
cp /mystic/echomail/in/*.PKT /mystic/echomail/backup-in
fi

And the autoexec section of dosbox.conf

----------------
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

mount m: /mystic/echomail
mount d: /home/mystic/blkhole
mount c: /home/mystic/c_drive
d:\hamgate.bat
----------------

d:\hamgate.bat is what starts the DOS side of the system. :)


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On 08-31-20 13:31, Phoobar wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Am I getting out? I'm trying to get the gateway to run automatically.

Yes you are! Great to hear from you.

Cool. :)

Running DOSBox under Xvfb, to eliminate the need for a local (visible) X

Thank you for talking up DOSBox...am using it to configure Telegard to
run eventually.

Yeah it works reasonably well.


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On 08-17-20 08:49, Phoobar wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Testing gateway in automatic mode. Got it running using Xvfb as a dummy
X server for DOSBox. As a bonus, it's much faster to load. :)

You piqued my interest when you mentioned using DOSBox to do this. I've got some of the tweaked builds available with networking & such. Not looking for exact directions...but is there a way you can explain how
you were able to do this using DOSBox?

A combination of using Xvfb to run DOSBox under and the autoexec within DOSBox to run the gateway. Having some reliability issues, but it sorts works. :)

BTW...hope you & the rest of you like Andrew are doing okay with all
the news I'm hearing out of Ottawa on the CBC about the flair ups.

Hmm, there's a planet in between. :P


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