Notice: Folks, you see, at my place, I have a dual-boot system, consisting of Windows NT and Linux (each of them having their own partition(s) and file system). I wanted to have 'independent' operating systems that won't see each other. So I made two NT's partitions as NTFS partitions and rest of the space used Linux as ext2 partitions. Well, first I have installed WinFBB under NT and X11 LinFBB under Linux. Both of them worked, but there was a big "problem": I could not share their system files. You might say: So, what a big deal. But, my FBB's should serve as packet-radio forwarding stations (regardless of which one I boot at the moment), so it was really needed for new LinFBB to "know", for example, the position where WinFBB has stopped the mail exchange last time (and vice versa, of course).
init.srv -> init_w.srv
forward.sys -> forw_w.sys
port.sys -> port_w.sys
protect.sys -> prot_w.sys
FBB is able to recognize and accept those renamed files.
amsat
forward_to_file routine
(located in /mnt/win/fbb/system/fwd directory),
because that file was composed like this (for example):
A AMSAT
*
P @
*
C D:\FBB\SYSTEM\SAT\AMSAT.TXT <-- looks familiar to DOS/Windows only
*
G AMSAT
*
--------
On the other side, LinFBB's amsat.sys
(located
in /etc/ax25/fbb/fwd directory) has suggested
something like this:
A AMSAT
*
P @
*
C /var/ax25/fbb/sat/amsat.txt <-- looks familiar to Linux only
*
G AMSAT
*
--------
Well, then I copied LinFBB's amsat.sys
into /mnt/win/fbb/system/fwd directory so
it could become functional. As a result, I got
two amsat.txt
files, one of them
for each of WinFBB/LinFBB, and of course, both files
appeared on different locations: the first one was
/mnt/win/fbb/system/sat/amsat.txt and it
was filled by WinFBB; the other one was in
/var/ax25/fbb/sat/amsat.txt and was filled by
LinFBB. I didn't like it that way.
In order to have only one result,
regardless of FBB version, the newly copied
amsat.sys
had to be slightly changed:
A AMSAT
*
P @
*
*C /var/ax25/fbb/sat/amsat.txt
C /mnt/win/fbb/system/sat/amsat.txt
*
G AMSAT
*
--------
As you can see now, when LinFBB is active, its
amsat.sys
will not forward into
its "native" location of amsat.txt
.
Instead of that, it will go to the location
of the WinFBB's amsat.txt
and just
add some new materials into it, ok?
Well, now it's up to you to decide what to do
with your growing amsat.txt
. An old
DosFBB manual says that the 'batch' file
(I suppose, the old good APPEL.BAT
)
should be adopted in order for SATUPDAT.EXE
can update sat tracking data and, after
that, to erase AMSAT.TXT because it is not
needed anymore. Well, I haven't found a way to
manage that in both WinFBB and LinFBB. Actually,
whenever I perform housekeeping from either of them,
it seems that AMSAT.TXT remains intact. Happily,
it doesn't grow too much, so it's not a big problem.
Any suggestion here?