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  • Is there a native Linux program that lets me connect a straight key and

    From Ottavio Caruso@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, November 22, 2025 15:09:42
    Subject: Is there a native Linux program that lets me connect a straight key and check if my code is correct?

    As per title, but please no CWCOM or any other deadware Windows software
    from the 70s that has to be run trough an emulator.

    Ideally I also need a program that suggests code that I should key (I
    can do that myself with a shell function, but I wonder if that has been
    done before).

    I'm not holding my breath but you never know.

    --
    Ottavio Caruso



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  • From Brian Howie@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 18:47:08
    Subject: Re: Is there a native Linux program that lets me connect a straight key and check if my code is correct?

    In message <10fsjnm$i0ci$1@dont-email.me>, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> writes
    As per title, but please no CWCOM or any other deadware Windows software
    from the 70s that has to be run trough an emulator.

    Ideally I also need a program that suggests code that I should key (I
    can do that myself with a shell function, but I wonder if that has been
    done before).

    I'm not holding my breath but you never know.


    Xde morse might do it but you need to key a tone generator . I made a
    decoder that read the "printer busy" as a one bit input port.

    https://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pkg/morse/xdemorse/xdemorse.html.

    Cheers

    Brian
    --
    Brian Howie


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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Ottavio Caruso@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, November 27, 2025 14:49:07
    Subject: Re: Is there a native Linux program that lets me connect a straight key and check if my code is correct?

    Am 26.11.25 um 18:47 schrieb Brian Howie:
    In message <10fsjnm$i0ci$1@dont-email.me>, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006- usenet2012@yahoo.com> writes
    As per title, but please no CWCOM or any other deadware Windows software
    from the 70s that has to be run trough an emulator.

    Ideally I also need a program that suggests code that I should key (I
    can do that myself with a shell function, but I wonder if that has been
    done before).

    I'm not holding my breath but you never know.


    Xde morse might do it but you need to key a tone generator . I made a decoder that read the˙ "printer busy" as a one bit input port.

    https://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pkg/morse/xdemorse/xdemorse.html.

    Cheers

    Brian

    Thanks. I'll look into it.

    --
    Ottavio Caruso


    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.1
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)