NAME
Xastir is a graphical application that interfaces HAM radio and
internet access to real-time mapping software.
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the Xastir commands. Xastir’s main
documentation is in the GNU Info format; see below.
SYNOPSIS
xastir [options] Language ...
OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with one dash (‘-’). A summary of options is included
below.
-c /path/dir
Specify an optional config directory. Defaults to ~/.xastir
-f callsign
Track callsign
-i Use a private colormap
-geometry WxH+x+y
Set Window Geometry/Position
-l Language
Xastir remembers the language once you set it the first time.
-m Deselect Maps
-p Disable popups
-t Internal SIGSEGV handler enabled
-v Level
Set the debug level
-? Show summary of options available.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES
Current choices are:
Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish.
Usage is:
xastir -i -v 2047 -l Dutch &
SIGNALS
SIGINT, SIQQUIT, SIGTERM Cause Xastir to exit.
SIGHUP Causes a restart.
SIGUSR1 Causes a snapshot to occur.
NETWORK PORTS
Enable these ports on this menu: "Interface->Enable Server Ports"
TCP:2023 Bidirectional TCP port for clients to connect to. Requires
login if client will be transmitting.
UDP:2023 Unidirectional UDP input port for clients to inject packets.
See the documentation for the format.
SEE ALSO
The program is documented fully by help-English.dat, available via the
HELP menu option in Xastir, plus the various README and INSTALL text
files that come with the program. Also see <http://www.xastir.org> and
the Documentation Wiki there.
Xastir is a program for APRS(tm)...
APRS[tm] is a Trademark of Bob Bruninga, his home page is at
"http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html"
COPYING
Copyright (C) 1999,2000 Frank Giannandrea KC2GJS Copyright (C)
2000-2008 The Xastir Group
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jose <hi8gn@amsat.org>, for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).