Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Tlf ham radio contest logger - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:42:31PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
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> 
> Rein Couperus <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Tlf ham radio contest logger
> System name: tlf
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Tlf is an open source logging and scoring program for ham radio contesting. 
> It provides support for participation in the major international contests as 
> well as a number of national events.

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> The program includes a morsecode generator and special operating logic needed 
> for efficient use of the radio hardware. It also includes networking software 
> to support multi-station contesting. Tlf is completely written in C, and uses 
> an ncurses interface to make it run on slow (386) machines. The programming 
> environment uses GNU tools like autoconfig, automake etc. and is heavily 
> tested in the Debian environment. Tlf uses Hamlib for interfacing to a large 
> number of radios. Licensing is GPL. Special care has been taken to ensure 
> that no commercial code is used. The package, including sourcecode and user 
> documentation is available via the tlf webpage at 
> http://www.iae.nl/users/reinc/TLF-0.2.html.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Ncurses library
> Pthreads library
> Hamlib-1.1.3  library (Debian distribution)
> 
> Other Comments:
> 

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Regards,

Rudy