[Dxspider-support] what am i missing ??

[Lee Sawkins]

Although the old AK1A nodes would not allow you to connect using a "/"
in your call, you could set/alias to a call with a "/" in it.  You could
then "switch" and send out dx spots with that callsign.  AR Cluster will
allow users with "/" to make telnet connections.  I have never heard of
a problem caused by this.

Lee VE7CC
  

Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:30 -0800, Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> > why cant users that are portable such as w4/vp9kf log
> > in using w4\vp9kf or w4/vp9kf?? is there something i
> > need to change ??
> 
> Because, historically, '/' characters are not allowed in callsigns in
> ax25 + there was the 6 character length restriction. Also, because I
> think that it will break some other software, it is not allowed.
> 
> If someone convinces me that it won't cause a problem, it is easy enough
> to add. Just beware, that in this case, I have been bitten before by
> being too liberal and broken other software, so I will need a deal of
> convincing.
> 
> Dirk G1TLH
> 
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