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This is a little program to give a split screen session for ttylink
connections. There is a 2 line window at the bottom of the screen
for composing outgoing lines, and the rest of the screen is used to
display incoming messages. I put this together to make "chatting"
with users on NOS convers nodes a little more pleasant. This is
public domain software.
Dave Perry
va3dp
dp@hydra.carleton.ca
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Colrconv is a modified version of VA3DP's ttylink client (see
README.TTYLINK). In addition to the basic split screen session it
gives you color and sound support plus some line editing capabilities,
a scroll buffer and a status line. Also the default port is changed
to 3600 (convers).
Here is a list of the special features of colrconv:
- Color support. A new color is assigned to each user the first time
he sends text and this color is used when displaying any subsequent
text from this user. Available colors are green, yellow, cyan,
magenta, blue and red. These are used twice, the second time with
BOLD attribute on. After the colors run out they are used again.
Bold red is reserved for special messages (starting with ***) and
for private messages (eg. <*oh2bns*>: Hello!).
- Sound support (only if compiled with -DAUDIO flag). Colrconv plays
certain files when it receives text from the convers bridge. The
files are: callsign.dsp (eg. oh2bns.dsp), unknown.dsp, signedon.dsp,
says.dsp and pingpong.dsp. This feature is still a bit experimental
and only works with older convers servers. Also you have to make
your own dsp files (eg. using a microphone and typing
cat < /dev/dsp > oh2bns.dsp)
- Line editing. This is somewhat like in emacs:
Ctrl-A Goto beginning of line
Ctrl-B and
Left arrow Go one character backward
Ctrl-D Delete character under cursor
Ctrl-E Goto end of line
Ctrl-F and
Right arrow Go one character forward
Ctrl-K Kill from cursor to end of line (and store to kill buffer)
Ctrl-R Reprint current line
Ctrl-U Delete current line in total
Ctrl-W Erase last word
Ctrl-Y Yank kill buffer
- Scroll buffer (default 1000 lines, can be changed when compiled).
Scroll buffer can be browsed with arrow keys Up and Down (or Ctrl-P
and Ctrl-N), PageUp, PageDown, Home and End keys.
- 8 bit support. All legal 8 bit printable characters are displayed as
is. Characters 128 - 159 ("illegal" in ISO-8859.1) are converted as
if they were IBM codepage 437 characters (this makes some national
characters look right even if they were originated from MESSY-DOS
applications).
Also all "control" characters (0 - 31) are shown in reverse except
control-g which is only sounded, not printed.
- Status line. Shows some more or less useful information about the
current state of the program.
- Ctrl-L repaints the whole screen.
- By default, colrconv logs in on the convers server, using the user
name as the callsign. Use the -n parameter to use some other callsign.
- If ~/.conversrc exists, it is sent to the server after logging in.
Handy for automatically sending commands like /notify, /who.
- Command line arguments:
colrconv [-nocolor] [-n <name> [-c <channel>]] <host> [<service>]
-nocolor Disables color support even if terminal supports
colors.
-n <name> Login name (if other than user name).
-c <channel> Login channel (needs -n option).
<host> Hostname to connect to (domain name or ip address).
<service> Service to connect to (service name or port number,
default 3600).
Credits:
Original code by VA3DP. Idea and code for color and sound support by
Pekka, OH2BBP.
This is public domain software.
Tomi Manninen
OH2BNS
tomi.manninen@hut.fi
Pekka Lempola
OH2BBP
pekka.lempola@vtt.fi
Small hack by Heikki Hannikainen, OH7LZB <hessu@pspt.fi>
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