Date: Sun, 28 Feb 93 04:30:11 PST
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Subject: TCP-Group Digest V93 #56
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TCP-Group Digest Sun, 28 Feb 93 Volume 93 : Issue 56
Today's Topics:
physical layer and FEC engineering
RCS 5.6 available for MS-DOS
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 15:10:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Steve Sampson <ssampson@sabea-oc.af.mil>
Subject: physical layer and FEC engineering
To: TCP-Group@UCSD.Edu
Jay Maynard says:
> Once again, I feel compelled to speak up in defense of folks who can't
> afford to dedicate high-powered computer hardware to packet radio...
If the proposal is to have the home computer do everything, then you're
correct. I hope that's not what we're talking about though. The current
way of doing things is fine for experimentation, but the end result should
be a plug-in card or a black box that goes to the radio, and interfaces
through a computers device driver routines. That means getting rid of all
that BBS and other garbage and getting back to the basics. From this point
we will use the OS tools, point-n-click for windows, mail, news, etc. Sort
of like a fancy Ethernet card. And if you need a CPU chip to replace the
HDLC chip, so be it. You could even put in an RS-232 port to send raw data
to your C-64 that's running a YAPP like program written in B.A.S.I.C. :-)
At least that's what I'm talking about, I want the general purpose computer
(PC) to be relieved of anything more suited to a special purpose processor
connected to memory via DMA.
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 93 10:05:47 PST
From: Stuart G. Phillips <stu@tandem.com>
Subject: RCS 5.6 available for MS-DOS
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
With Phil now using RCS to ship out NOS I thought you'd all be interested
in the availability of RCS 5.6 for MS-DOS. This supercedes my MS-DOS
port of 5.5 which is widely spread through the Internet as RCS55.ZIP.
RCS56.ZIP is available via anonymous FTP in tandem.com:pub/rcs56.zip - this
archive contains the complete executeables built for DOS using Borland C++
V3.1 and includes the portation kit necessary to re-build from the standard
GNU RCS 5.6 release. Complete source is contained in the dosrcs56.zip
archive in the same place.
The major advantage for DOS users is that 5.6 completely removes the %v
kludge that was used to hack RCS file names. All three characters are
now available for file extensions. There are several bug fixes etc.
Enjoy!
Stu N6TTO
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