ACLIENTS(1)

✨ ACLIENTS(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

Okay bestie, let's talk about aclients 🎀💅 (the manual name, the whole vibe, the works).

✨ NAME ✨

aclients — a test program for side-by-side TNC performance comparison 🦋. It's basically a little showdown between TNCs 👑.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

aclients tnc ...

Each tnc reference is a port, =, and a description 💖. So like, port=description and you're good to go ✨.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so aclients is used to compare how well different TNCs decode AS.25 frames 🔥. Literally the whole point is seeing who's the best decoder in the group chat 💀. The port can be a serial port name, host_name:tcp_port, ip_addr:port, or simply tcp_port 🌸. Pick whichever one your TNC is hanging out on 🧚.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

None. No flags, no drama, just vibes 🫶.

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

aclients /dev/ttyS0=KPC3+ /dev/ttyUSB0=D710A 8000=DireWolf
192.168.1.64:8002=other

Okay so this is giving main character energy 👑. Serial port /dev/ttyS0 is connected to a KPC3+ with monitor mode turned on 💜.

Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 is connected to a TM-D710A with monitor mode turned on 🍓.

The Dire Wolf software TNC is available on network port 8000 ✨.

Some other software TNC is available on network port 8002 on host 192.168.1.64 🦋.

Packets from each are displayed in columns so it is easy to see how well each decodes the received signals 💅. Literally so easy to compare, I'm obsessed 😭.

The "Receive Performance" section of the User Guide contains some complete examples of how to set up tests and the results 📖. Lowkey the best place to start if you want the full tea ☕.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

More detailed information is in the PDF files at https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/tree/master/doc/ 🌈. Bestie, go check those out 🫶.

Applications in this package: aclients, atest, decode_aprs, direwolf, gen_packets, kissutil, ll2utm, log2gpx, text2tt, tt2text, utm2ll 💖.

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Bye bestie, that's the whole tea ☕✨. ACLIENTS(1) 🎀 — Unix manual vibes, Linux 6.17.0-35-generic era, signing off 2026-10-13 💜🦋.