Re: [Xlog-discussion] Some things about Xlog

[Stephane Fillod]

Quoting Joop Stakenborg <address@hidden>:
> If I had some more time, I really would like to write a CW keyer which would 
> integrate with xlog. I was thinking of a separate program which keys through 
> the serial port (like tlf does) and sends logging information to xlog. 

Hey! I got the same idea (but I'm short on time too).
What about a CW keyer deamon? cwkeyerd would listen on a TCP port,
and get chars from the socket. From a shell, the following
would do the trick:

   echo "CQ CQ CQ DE F8CFE F8CFE K K" | nc localhost 7373

There would be also an escape sequence to remotely change the speed and weights.
We can imagine some command line options or a config file to select the output
among the serial port, parallel port, sound card, Hamlib supported rig (e.g. 
TS2000, some Icom's), etc.

To make things a lot simpler and portable, the daemon will be implemented
totally in user mode. unixcw with its cwlib looks like a good starting point.

What do you think?

73s
Stephane - F8CFE