[Cluster-tech] Client program authors

[Robert Chalmas]

Hi Dirk,

> Are all the client program authors listening on this channel? If not,
> and you are in contact with one of them, please ask them to subscribe,
> because I am making some important changes.
> 
> Lee VE7CC has asked for DX spots to be output in protocol like form, but
> with extra information attached. 
> 
> It occurs to me that this may be useful for other authors as well. The
> command for switching this on is:-
> 
> set/ve7cc
> 
> It is a non-persistent command so you have to send it at the beginning
> of every session. There is an "unset/ve7cc" command as well.
> 
> Having done this, it occurs to me that most other output from the node
> could be put out in pseudo protocol mode as well. Would this be of
> interest to any of you authors?

For most kinds of information which can be easily identified because they
always start the same way ("DX de ", "WWV de ", "ALL de "), I believe
it would'n bring much for me, but if a new protocol is added and widely
used, I will support it in RXCLUS.

An exception would be the CHAT spots which I can identify only after the
user entered in RXCLUS configuration the list of the CHAT groups he want
to be handled by the software. Having all such spots starting with
something in the form CCxx^ would make those spots easy to identify
without asking the user to do any special configuration at the client
level.

On the other side, a new protocol would be useful mainly if it's
supported by most server and client software and widely accepted
by the users. At this stage, it's quite difficult to guess if those
conditions would be fulfiled, but I encourage any attempt to test
this in the real world !

73's de                 Robert - HB9BZA

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