[TenTec] Orion, *nix, and hamlib

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing at gmail.com>
To: "orion" <orion at contesting.com>; <tentec at contesting.com>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 13:56
Subject: [TenTec] Orion, *nix, and hamlib


> Any Linux / Orion programmers out there?
>
> I've been working on the Orion "backend"

How are they defining front end and back end?

> for Hamlib, the "universal"
> free library that aims to provide a rig-independent programming
> environment.

Really ?  Works with all rigs?

  It is now working better with Orion, although as you
> might expect, not all of Orion's features are available through the
> standardized interface. It is still a work in progress, now available
> at version 1.2.4.  This software runs best in a Linux environment,

Hmmm!?  Which one ?

> although there is work on MacOS and there are Windows strategies,

INcluding completion ports?
 too.
>
> Hamlib is a software library to support programming in C, C++, TCL,
> Python, Perl, etc.  The big advantage is that your applications
> programs can work many different rigs. About 200 models are supported
> at some level, from Bearcats to Orions.
>
> For those not rolling their own software, there are a number of free
> applications that make use of Hamlib: gMFSK, Xlog, and others.  See
> the hamlib website at http://hamlib.sourceforge.net .
>
> I'd be happy to hear from Orion programmers who want to work with Hamlib.
>
> 73, Martin AA6E
> -- 
> martin.ewing at gmail.com
> http://blog.aa6e.net
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