[drats_users] D-RATS BBS feature develompent

[Nate Duehr]

Other than it's starting to sound like WinLink for D-STAR...?  ;-)

Actually WinLink would -- and does -- work over D-STAR if you keep the
message sizes small, and set it to use a "serial port", which is actually
the radio.  We've tried it.  

It doesn't understand to unkey every three minutes, however... so it dies
above a certain message size.  I doubt it would recover well on errors,
other than it tries the entire transmission again, but it does work... it'd
take them about 10 minutes to add a checkbox to handle D-STAR as a serial
port in a "dumb" fashion, if they were interested.  I doubt they are.

(For the record: I'm not a big WinLink fan, some other locals wanted to try
it, so we did.)

Nate WY0X

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My initial thought was to make the first (main) screen that comes up be
something like a mail client.  Messages, folders, and files would be the
prominent fixtures.  Via a menu option, you could open a chat window
and/or the map/stations window.  Alternately (or as an option) we could
have top-level tabs that encapsulate the major functions.  The nice
thing about that is that I can easily make the tab color change when
something needs to be addressed in a non-focused tab.

Any thoughts on that approach specifically?

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Dan Smith
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