Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
I spoke with a friend about this yesterday who was in the area and has done quite a bit using SDR as a radio amateur. He passed along these links: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=wright1608139109925131&disposition=inline https://www.rtl-sdr.com/using-an-rtl-sdr-

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/22/21 00:47, Hans wrote: > Hi Georgi, > > yes, that sounds interesting. And fingerprinting of a transceiver is the main > thing. Thus, for example, you can identify people's radio transceivers, they > use to radio interfere. I am a licensed radio amateur, and those people are > often doin

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 12:23 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > Interestingly, it appears that the original author was threatened with > patent infringement of US Patent 5,005,210[1]. It seems as though the > patent may have expired in 2008[2]. > > . > Thanks for that, the usual shady story. > Just

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-22 Thread Daniel Haude
As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux (like doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, then fix some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this is a lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is fa

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hans, Georgi makes a good point about existing software. This seems like it would be a perfect addition to a Software Defined Radio (SDR) package. I've not investigated whether any of the existing packages available in Debian have this capability. As these programs capture an arbitrary slice of

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Hans
Hi Georgi, yes, that sounds interesting. And fingerprinting of a transceiver is the main thing. Thus, for example, you can identify people's radio transceivers, they use to radio interfere. I am a licensed radio amateur, and those people are often doing this on repeaters. They want to be anony

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/21/21 13:54, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old > DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode > ("ncurses-mode"). > > Since

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
Interestingly, it appears that the original author was threatened with patent infringement of US Patent 5,005,210[1]. It seems as though the patent may have expired in 2008[2]. It appears no patent infringement suit was ever brought against the author. The noted rights holder, Motron, apparently

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 21.11.2021 15:24, skrev Håkon Alstadheim: Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis: On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote:     On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt     wrote:     Hi,     Hans wrote:     > As far as I know, this application

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis: On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Hans wrote: >> > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in >> > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). >> > [...] I wondered, ho >> > difficult for an experi

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Hans wrote: > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in > > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). > > [...] I wondered, ho > > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application > > natively runni

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Hans
Of course, and this working, yes. But I thought, native linux might be better, and maybe someone may be happy for such a projekt. Just an idea. Best Hans > tried DOSEMU? > https://dosemu2.github.io/dosemu2/ > > -- > Fabio

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 21. November 2021, 14:03:36 CET schrieb Richard Owlett: if-module, this is intermediate frequence (as usual 455khz for example). Did not know the correct English word for it, sorry. Best Hans > On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > [snip] > > > > (What is an "if-module",

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/21/2021 06:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [snip] (What is an "if-module", btw ? Google does not give me proposals which look like radio enthusiasm.) I read that as "Intermediate frequency". q.v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Fabio Martins
On 2021-11-21 08:54, Hans wrote: Hello list, I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode ("ncurses-mode"). Since there is no

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in > textmode ("ncurses-mode"). > [...] I wondered, ho > difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application > natively running in linux. Hard to say without seeing code and build system. Did

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Hans
Hi Nate (and everything else), if you want to take a look at the app, it is called "XMIT261". You can find it here: https://www.qsl.net/n9zia/xmit_id/down.html[1] It is the only source I found, for myself I made several backups, as I am not sure how long this is available at all. Although, t

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 21 Nov 05:54 -0600, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > I know, there are lots of coders here and I have a question. There is an old > DOS application I found, which is open source and GPL. > > As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in textmode > ("ncurses-mode").

Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

2021-11-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/21/2021 05:54 AM, Hans wrote: [snip] I can send the app wherever you want to (attaching it here, does not allow to send the mail strangely), so everyone can take a look. This app is available in the web, but a little bit hidden, if you do not know its exactly name. And the name of this