AXWRAPPER(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

axwrapper — run non-ax.25-aware programs from ax25d. This is the AXWRAPPER(8) page, bestie, and it’s giving “tiny adapter with main character energy” 🦋.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

axwrapper [ -p paclen ] server-program argv[0] ...

Okay so real talk: the synopsis says -p paclen, but the OPTIONS section down there says -c paclen. I’m not fixing it, not merging it, not renaming anything — I’m just telling you what the page says, fr fr. 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here’s the whole vibe: axwrapper first creates a pipe, then it forks and execs the program <server-program> with the arguments you gave it on the axwrapper command line. The argv[0] argument is mandatory — like, non-negotiable mandatory — and any further arguments are optional. 🫶

Then the parent process just sits there and waits for any I/O to and from the user. While it’s babysitting, it converts any carriage return characters from the user to line feeds, and any line feeds from the program to carriage returns. It’s giving translator bestie at the function. 🌈

This is useful when you’re starting non-AX.25-aware programs from ax25d. Periodt. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c paclen — specify a the size of the output buffer. The default length is 256 bytes. Yes bestie, 256, iconic little buffer. 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ax25(8)
• ax25.conf(5)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Tomi Manninen OH2BNS <oh2bns@sral.fi> — author credits, slay. 👑

This little page is from the Linux manual, dated 26 July 2017 — AXWRAPPER(8), source/version vibes and all. Bye bestie, go wrap some non-AX.25-aware programs responsibly! 💅✨