[nos-bbs] Nos improvments, interfacing to Winlink...

[Demetre Valaris]

maiko at pcs.mb.ca wrote:

>Bill wrote :
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>>It would be another big step if we could also use the F1B compression
>>that Winlink, and I'm guessing AIRMAIL, is using.
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>I've had a few people suggest to me that since the SCS PTC is already
>doing compression internally, is there really any benefit in compressing
>the data being sent to the TNC ? Will doing so actually bog down the
>effective throughput of the PTC ? I don't know off hand.
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>Anyone know of any research into this ?
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>>so we might be able to put telpack_node right in to NOS.
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>I'm not familiar with telpack_node. I've been meaning to see what
>it's about, but haven't had the time. My understanding is that NOS is
>already (in a way) a form of telpack_node, so why bother ?
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>Maiko
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Hi Maiko and all,

One thing is sure, making JNOS compatible to the Winlink/Telpack/Airmail 
system will surely boost its usefulness by 100%.  I have 4 ports here in 
Athens (2 on VHF 1k2 and 2 on UHF 9k6) that support  both JNOS and the 
TELPAC NODE that was written my DL5DI recently.
They all work very nicely in my 2 LINUX Boxes sharing happily the same 
ax25utils ports.

Good work Maiko.

73 de Demetre SV1UY