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SM5SXL

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A Morse training program for Unix
« on: May 02, 2016, 05:07:34 AM »

MORSE is a Morse code train­ing pro­gram for Unix‐​like sys­tems. It is based on an old MS‐​DOS pro­gram from 1996 for Sound­blaster Pro. This Unix in­car­na­tion is not quite as fea­ture­ful as the DOS one, but it’s still use­ful.

http://matsp888.no-ip.org/~mats/hamradio/software/morse/

Mats SM6SXL
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LU2DFM

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RE: A Morse training program for Unix
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2016, 06:48:56 PM »

If this is your server, it's misconfigured:


You don't have permission to access /~mats/hamradio/software/morse/ on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at matsp888.no-ip.org Port 80

If not, then your DNS is.

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K7EXJ

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RE: A Morse training program for Unix
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2016, 07:15:51 AM »

It's fixed now. :)

Common problem. Probably Centos.

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Craig :)

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RE: A Morse training program for Unix
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2016, 10:25:42 AM »

MORSE is a Morse code train­ing pro­gram for Unix‐​like sys­tems. It is based on an old MS‐​DOS pro­gram from 1996 for Sound­blaster Pro. This Unix in­car­na­tion is not quite as fea­ture­ful as the DOS one, but it’s still use­ful.

http://matsp888.no-ip.org/~mats/hamradio/software/morse/

Every piece of open source software is useful - it works very well and produces nice sounding code.

Here are two tiny suggestion to make it follow the principle of least surprise:

When I played around with it, of course I wanted to see how fast it goes and set the speed to 999 WPM which worked just as expected. In calc_samples you decrease the rise / decay time from the default value of 5 ms to something that makes more sense if otherwise the rise + decay would, at that speed, not allow that the full volume is reached. The new rise/decay time was 0,600601 ms.

I then entered the menu to set the tone parameters, but it didn't accept just pressing enter, when I wanted to confirm this value again (after changing the frequency). That's because the lowest allowed value for the rise / decay time is 1 ms and I had to enter a value of 1 or greater manually.

Another surprise came when exiting: While in the menu both upper and lower case letters work, to confirm to quit a "Y" didn't do it, it had to be "y".

Nitpicking? You bet! Feel free to ignore :-D

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Fabian




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