xcall(1)
NAME
xcall - Packet Radio Program for X/GTK+
SYNOPSIS
xcall
DESCRIPTION
- xcall is a packet radio program for X, written with the
- GTK library. It can be used for AX.25, NET/ROM and Rose connec
- tions. Xcall includes support for DX clusters.
USAGE
After startup, you make a connection by selecting:
Host->Connection
- from the menu. You will be presented with a dialog with an
- entry where the port and remote callsign should be entered. When
- connected, the top area will display the received frames and you
- can type the text to be transmitted into the one-line entry at
- the bottom.
- xcall will respond with the message '*** Cannot connect to
- <callsign>: Time-out during connection setup' when a timeout oc
- curs. The timeout value can be set in the preferences dialog.
- If you think the connection-setup is taking too long, you
- can terminate it by selecting Host->Connection again. The same
- menu entry is also used for disconnecting.
- Xcall is able to record the current session into a file by
- selecting:
- Host->Recording
- from the menu. If you enter a filename without a path,
- the session will be recorded to ~/<download directory>/filename.
- Data will be appended to any previously created file with the
- same name. The download directory can be set in the preferences
- dialog.
- Recording can be stopped by selecting the same menu again.
- Xcall forks a copy when trying to set up a connection.
- This copy is automatically deleted after the connection is either
- successful or an error has occured.
HISTORY
- Xcall will remember the last 20 lines you have entered in
- to the transmit line. The lines will be saved into ~/.xcall/his
- tory and recalled the next time you start xcall. History is also
- saved for the connection and the recording dialogs.
PREFERENCES
- When you navigate through the menu, you will find a pref
- erences dialog under settings.
- The General page in this dialog can be used for setting
- the download directory, timeout and saving of window size and po
- sition. The Display page allows you to change font, colors and
- widget appearance of the receive window. The AX.25 page contains
- information for AX.25 port settings, read from the proc filesys
- tem. These settings can be changed by echoing a digit (as root)
- to the proc entry. For example, setting a port called 'bpq0' to
- AX.25 Extended mode can be done with the following line:
- echo 1> /proc/sys/net/ax25/bpq0/ax25_default_mode.
- More information on the proc filesystem parameters can be
- found in the AX25-HOWTO.
- The last page in the preferences dialog can be used to
- turn on DX cluster support. When enabled, dx spots will appear
- colorized. For bands between 1.8 and 30 Mc/s, you can change the
- color.
KEYS
- You can use the PgUp/PgDn key to scroll the top window.
- Hitting the Up/Dn arrow will show the previously/next transmitted
- text in the one-line entry. The Alt-key will navigate the menu.
THEMES
- On startup, xcall will read ~/.xcall/xcallrc, when
- present. This file can be used to change the appearance of xcall.
- Included in the distribution is a file called sample.SGI.xcallrc
- with an 'SGI' like theme and sample.blue.xcallrc with a blue
- theme. Copy this files to xcallrc to try it out.
LANGUAGE SUPPORT
- If you have set up language support correctly on your sys
- tem and if you speak the Dutch or French language, you can enjoy
- xcall in your native langauge by setting the environment variable
- LANG. Set it to either 'nl_NL' or 'fr_FR'.
AUTHOR
- Both xcall and this manual page were written by Joop Stak
- enborg <pg4i@amsat.org>. Parts of xcall were taken from call.c
- from the ax25-apps sources by different authors.