Hello,
Announcing the the next release of gARIM, a GUI version of the ARIM ARDOP host
program. This version is compatible with both version 1x and version 2.x ARDOP TNCs:
ARDOP_Win TNC, version 1.0.4, or ardopc or piardopc version 1.0.4.x or higher.
ARDOP_2Win TNC, version 2.0.4.x or higher, or ardop2 or piardop2 version 2.0.3.9-BPQ and higher.
It may also be used with the ardopofdm TNC recently released by G8BPQ - use the gARIM command prompt to send the new ENABLEOFDM command to the TNC as needed.
gARIM is fully compatible with ARIM. Read more about it here:
https://www.whitemesa.net/garim/garim.html
New features in gARIM v0.2:
-- Added support for version 1 ARDOP TNCs.
-- Added a graphical progress meter to indicate progress of uploads and downloads.
See the change log below for details.
The downloads include a PDF Help doc and man pages. The download links are:
Binary distribution for 32-bit Ubuntu/Linux Mint 16.04 LTS
https://www.whitemesa.net/garim/pkg/garim-0.2-bin-linux-gnu-i686.tar.gz
Binary distribution for 64-bit Ubuntu/Linux Mint 16.04 LTS:
https://www.whitemesa.net/garim/pkg/garim-0.2-bin-linux-gnu-x86_64.tar.gz
Binary distribution for Raspbian OS on RPi:
https://www.whitemesa.net/garim/pkg/garim-0.2-bin-linux-gnueabihf-armv7l.tar.gz
Source code distribution:
https://www.whitemesa.net/garim/src/garim-0.2.tar.gz
Files are also available at the ardop applications Files area at
groups.io:
https://ardop.groups.io/g/applications/files
and in the Files area at the arim-ham Yahoo group:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/arim-ham/files
For Linux OS, the binary distributions are for Ubuntu 16.04 and derivatives like Linux Mint 18.x only. It's best to compile gARIM from source code to avoid library versioning problems. It's easy, instructions are found in the INSTALL file included in the source distribution.
73,
Bob NW8L
v0.2 09Aug2018
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1. Add progress meter feature for file, message, query response, and
directory listing data transfers. The meter is located on the
status bar and appears when an upload or download begins to
indicate percentage of completion as the tranfer progresses.
Suggested by Doug, WB6VAC, thanks!
2. Installer ("sudo make install") now installs a Desktop Entry file
and icon file, to make gARIM visible in the application menu on
Linux distros that support the XDG Desktop Entry Specification.
gARIM may initially appear under the "Other" category, but this
can be changed using the distribution's menu editor.
3. gARIM is now backward compatible with version 1.x ARDOP TNCs, of
which ardopc v1.0.4.1b-BPQ and ARDOP_Win v1.0.4 were the last
(and recommended) releases. When attaching to a TNC, gARIM detects
its version and adapts accordingly. Note that the ARQBW and FECMODE
parameters vary between ARDOP TNC versions 1 and 2, and if the
initial values specified in the garim.ini file are not valid for
the detected TNC version, gARIM will fall back to a default value.
4. Fix bug where the NEGOTIATEBW value from the config file was not
sent to ARDOP_2Win TNC v2.0.4 when gARIM starts.
5. Fix bug where the error message for failed TNC attach attempts
cited the wrong TNC number.
6. Fix bug where menus were left in the wrong state when an ARQ
session was canceled by pressing the ESC key.
7. Fix bug where, in an unauthenticated ARQ session, authentication
failed if the '/MGET' command was entered without a 'max number of
messages' argument given.
8. Fix erroneous "Sorry, unable to access file..." warning when a
file is selected in the "Select File to Send" file browse dialog
available after choosing "ARQ->Send File..." from the main menu.
Reported by Doug, WB6VAC, thanks!
9. Do not allow transmit operations initiated from the main menu or
file/message views to proceed if the TNC is busy. Do not allow ARQ
operations initiated from the main menu or file/message views to
proceed if the connection closes after the menu item is chosen.
10. Fix errors in arim.5 man page file and update Help document.
