Xcall 0.17 review

Xcall is a packet-radio program for X which supports the AX.25, NET/ROM and Rose protocols

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 225K Developer: Joop Stakenborg

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Xcall is a packet-radio program for X which supports the AX.25, NET/ROM and Rose protocols. It is written with help of the GTK library.

Connection setup is handled through a dialog with a settable timeout value. Support for DX clusters is included by colorization of DX spots. A session can be saved into a file, in case you like to download 7plus messages from a BBS.

The preferences dialog shows AX.25 information retrieved from the /proc filesystem, like AX.25 mode, window size and T1, T2 and T3 timeouts. Language support is included for both the dutch and french language.

Recently, I have added a kind of theme support. After startup, a theme file is read, which changes the appearance of xcall. Included with the distribution is a SGI-like them and a blue theme.

Installation:

./configure
make
make install

What's New in This Release:
French translations by Jean-Luc Coulon, F5IBH (thanks!). Closes: #300880.
Many widget changes, so the translations fit.
Compilation fixes.
Path for the language files has been fixed.