[aprssig] Asterisk in path -- is this done with the cmd bit?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Ben Jackson wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how '*' is actually encoded in an AX.25
> path.  Is it the cmd bit (above the SSID)?

The asterisk is just the human-readable representation of the
has-been-digipeated bit, or the this-digi-has-been-used-up field.
Whatever it's called.

Each bit gets set in sequence as each digi gets used up, but in
command-mode some TNC's only show you the last asterisk, some show
you an asterisk for each used-up digipeater field.

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