[Dxspider-support] BPQ32 and DXSpider (for Windows)

[Roger Cooke]

Hi Ron.

  I now have it working!!

  My IT friend, Mark, G0LGJ, came over for Morse tuition on Monday 
evening, and we re-installed that
WIN32 API file that John suggested in his zipped file SPIDERtoBPQ.ZIP 
that I sent to you.

  I had a reply from John, and he asked me to send my SPIDER/LOCAL 
directory, which I did. He tested
it out and found one other anomaly.  I told him that although I could 
connect via BPQ with no problem, I
cannot disconnect. He checked it out and found the same thing.  I am 
sending along our mail that I have
here, so you can see the exchanges. Perhaps it will help you too.

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That looks ok, but I see you have enabled AGW as well as BPQ. Could you
clarify exactly what you are running?

I've just tried logging on to your BBS and Spider, and both seem fine, but,
as you say, 'b' does not disconnect from Spider. I tried this on my test
Spider system, and the folloing is what appears in the Spider window:

C:\spider\perl>cluster.pl
cluster
DXSpider V1.54, build 0.177 started
Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
loading prefixes ...
US Database not loaded
loading band data ...
loading user file system ...
starting listeners ...
Internal port: localhost 27754 using IntMsg
External Port: 0.0.0.0 7300 using ExtMsg::login
load badwords: Ok
Starting Dupe system
Read in Messages
Read in Aliases
Start WWV
Start WCY
Starting DX Spot system
Start Protocol Engines ...
DXChannel GM8BPQ created (1)
reading existing message headers ...
load badmsg: Ok
load forward: Ok
load swop: Ok
reading cron jobs ...
cron: reading /spider/cmd/crontab
cron: adding 1 0 * * 3 DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")
cron: adding 5 0 * * * DXDebug::dbgclean()
cron: adding 0 3 * * * Spot::daily()
reading database descriptors ...
doing local initialisation ...
BPQ Listener
BPQ initialising...
G8BPQ Free Buffers = 531
BPQ Streams: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
orft we jolly well go ...
queue msg (0)
DXChannel GM8BPQ-2 created (2)
<- A GM8BPQ-2 ax25
DXCommand
GM8BPQ-2 connected from unknown
-> D GM8BPQ-2 Hello John, this is GM8BPQ in Nottingham
-> D GM8BPQ-2 running DXSpider V1.54 build 0.177
GM8BPQ-2 channel func  state 0 -> prompt
-> D GM8BPQ-2 Cluster: 1 nodes, 1 local / 1 total users  Max users 1  Uptime
0 0
0:00
-> D GM8BPQ-2 GM8BPQ-2 de GM8BPQ  6-Nov-2007 2336Z dxspider >
State = C
<- I GM8BPQ-2 b
DXCommand
GM8BPQ-2 disconnected
-> D GM8BPQ-2 GM8BPQ-2 de GM8BPQ  6-Nov-2007 2336Z dxspider >
DXChannel GM8BPQ-2 destroyed (2)


Do you see the 'b' command, and the 'disconnected' message?

73,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Cooke [mailto:roger at g3ldi.co.uk]
Sent: 06 November 2007 23:16
To: helen.davies6 at ntlworld.com
Subject: Spider and BPQ


Hi John,

    Yes, the SPIDERtoBPQ files that you said would enable this to happen.
Well, I originally had the Cluster on a separate machine. I could access
the VE7CC CLuster using AXIP from the BBS
machine, but when I changed to Spider, this stopped. I then installed
your files and still could not get it to happen. So,
I decided to transfer the Cluster to the same PC as the BBS. I could not
get it to work, so I wrote to you.

   However, since then, a friend came along and he re-installed WINIP 32
and after that it did work. However, I notice
that although it is quite fast in connecting. I cannot disconnect using
B for Bye or control C either. I have to type B
and wait for ages. Still, at least my RF users can now access the Cluster!

  I am attaching the LOCAL directory so you can look at it and make sure
I have it configured correctly. Many thanks
for your help, and thanks for making it possible to interface Spider. I
find Spider not very user friendly I have to say!

73 de Roger, G3LDI





Hi Roger,

By SPIDERtoBPQ do you mean the stuff I uploaded to the BPQ32 group Files
section? If so, what exactly was the error message you received? If you
send me the contents of your spider/local directory, I may be able to
try it here.

Regards,

John

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  You are now completely up to date. I don't see how John managed to save the 
actual screen display of SPIDER when connecting to it. I will have to do that
in order to send my screen display to him!

  Anyway, perhaps all this will help other SPIDER users and also you when doing
the upgrade to BPQ.  


73 de Roger, G3LDI



Ron Stordahl wrote:
> I am trying to gain enough knowledge to write a set of instructions on 
> how to interface BPQ32 and DXSpider.  I would include these 
> instructions with a forthcoming new release of BPQ32.
>
> I am not a DXSpider user, and I will not have time enough to do it 
> myself and still get the next release of BPQ32 out in a reasonable 
> period of time.
>
> If someone has successfully interfaced BPQ32 with DXSpider and would 
> be willing to describe how it is done I will greatly appreciate it.
>
> BPQ32 has three interface methods to interface with an application 
> running on the same machine.  I should have mentioned that it's the 
> Windows version of DXSpider I am concerned about.  Interfacing BPQ32 
> with the Linux version is a separate matter, and would be done by 
> running BPQ32 (since it only runs under Windows) and DXSpider Linux on 
> separate machines.
>
> The three interface methods are Active-X (OCX), DLL and AGWtoBPQ.  I 
> am most familiar with the OCX and AGWtoBPQ methods.  I don't believe 
> Windows DXSpider uses the OCX method.  A quick look ath the DXSpider 
> docs indicates that it does provide an AGWPE interface.  I am assuming 
> that is the tcp interface?  There is (or was) a AGWPE DLL interface, 
> but I think that has been retired.  The BPQ32 AGWtoBPQ.exe program 
> provides an AGWPE tcp look alike interface, so this should be 
> relatively straightforward.  As to an DLL interface, I believe that 
> John G8BPQ did provide a bpqperl.dll to accomplish this.  Is anyone 
> using that?
>
> If someone is willing to lend a hand I will appreciate it.
>
> Ron, N5IN
>
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