MCON ON : monitor all packets to/from other stations, not just your station
MCOM ON: monitor all packets sent (including ack packets etc)
MONITOR ON: turn on monitoring while not connected
Parallels 9 update for Mac OS X 10.9.5
Just tried to start up Parallels and got an error message that the Parallels service could not start – the link to this article says this is due to the last OS X update, and there’s a link to a download for an update to Parallels to address the issue.
Kantronics All Mode TNC – useful commands and tips
I’m still learning what the different commands are, but here’s what I’ve worked out so far (some of this might be wrong, if so leave me a comment!)
- c callsign : connect to callsign
- c callsign1 via callsign2 : connect via some other station you can hear
- unproto name via call1, call2, etc : sets the routing list of stations where your want your packets to be sent when in conv mode (?)
- when you connect (c) direct to another station, you enter conv mode with that station
- conv: enter conv mode when not directly connected to another station (packets are broadcast to the stations in your unproto string)
- Ctrl-C : to exit conv mode, and get back to cmd: mode
- perm : write settings to eprom
Useful commands when connected to someone’s bbs:
- l : list all messages
- lm : list messages to me
- b : list broadcast messages
- s callsign : send message to callsign
- r # : read msg #
- b (bye) : exit
Mounting Atari ST floppies on Ubuntu
I’m transferring some apps downloaded for my Atari ST (don’t ask) to floppies that are formatted with 80 tracks and 8 or 9 sectors, on double density disks (formatted on the ST). From what I understand these are MS-DOS readable but not exactly FAT format. Anyway, they don’t seem to mount by default on Ubuntu as it doesn’t know what format they are, but forcing a mount with this seems to work:
sudo udisks --mount /dev/fd0
seems to do the job (tip from here)