XCALL(1)

NAME
xcall - Simple Amateur Radio packet program for X/GTK+

SYNOPSIS
xcall

USAGE
After startup, you make a connection by typing

:c [port] [callsign] v [digi1] [digi2] ...

The top area will display the received AX.25 frames and you can type the text to be transmitted into the one-line entry at the bottom. In case you cannot connect to the other end, xcall will interrupt with the message '*** Cannot connect to <callsign>' in 30 seconds.

You can disconnect by typing:

:d

COLORS
xcall has 4 available colors. Received text is white, transmitted text is yellow, errors are in red and status messages are green.

LANGUAGE SUPPORT
If you have set up language support correctly on your system and if you speak the Dutch language, you can enjoy xcall in Dutch by setting the environment variable LANG to 'nl_NL'.

REMARKS
xcall does not know how to handle netrom and rose connections.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joop Stakenborg <pa4tu@amsat.org> aka <pa3aba@debian.org>.