GNOM/Linux

What is GNOM?

GNOM is a new terminal software running in textmode on LinuX. Once again, this is one of those often seen recursive short-cuts and stands for "GNOM is NOT MCuT".

What can it do?

Currently, these functions are available:

• Connect and disconnect (gosh!)
• Most of the user accounting is completed and waiting to be expanded.
• Some remote commands (e.g. //CS, //VER, //NAME)
• Transmitting and receiving text files
• AutoBIN (using the #BIN#-protocol)
• RMNC, BayBox, MD2 and DieBox passwords
• Online text compression (//COMP)
• 7plus autosave
• Supports all 8 bits (ASCII)
• Kernel-AX25 access has been moved to a seperate daemon! (kax25)
• GNOM's monitor interface works

What comes next?

These things are planned for the future:

• Enhance AutoBIN (resume, filenames with special characters etc.)
• Build an interface to VJBox
• A X-interface using the GTK+ - Toolkit. But at this time you cannot work with the buggy text-widget.

Hardware access

Starting with version 0.3.0, I have moved hardware access out of GNOM and into seperate daemons. This way, other autors can develop interfaces for more packet hard- and software without having to mess up my code. If it works as I like, multiple hardware drivers can be used at once. We will see as soon as there is more than one driver (i.e. the driver for kernel-AX25). But I hope other drivers will soon show up.

Drivers currently available:

• kax25 (kernel-AX25) by DG6VJ
  • accesses multiple kernel-AX25-ports
  • can automatically set parameters such as t1, t2, t3 (before: only with ax25ctl)

I haven't come round to writing a documentation yet. All routines regarding the GNOM <-> driver interface can be found in the files comm.c and comm.h. Using these it should be possible to write a new driver.

A driver for the WA8DED-hostmode and one for WAMPES are under construction. In case anyone would like to develop his own driver, I would appreciate a mail, so projects can be coordinated. Perhaps an additional note in board "GNOM" in the VJBox DB0EA-9 is possible.

Download

Main program:

• GNOM 0.3.13 (184 kB)
• GNOM 0.3.12 (91 kB)
• GNOM 0.3.9 (80 kB)
• GNOM 0.3.8 (80 kB)

Available drivers:

• Kernel-AX.25 (version 0.9b) (23 kB)
• Kernel-AX.25 (version 0.9) (23 kB)
• Kernel-AX.25 (version 0.75) (23 kB)

Contact

Questions, suggestions and more entries for the to-do list are welcomed. Please send them either via AX.25-S&F to DG6VJ@DB0EA.#NRW.DEU.EU or by internet e-mail to jochen@linkt.de.