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KISSGEN, a KISS Frame Generator
The KISS Frame Generator is a simple little command line Windows
application that reads frames from a file containing UI Frames in TNC-2
format, converts them into KISS frames and sends them to a specified serial
port at a specified speed and at a specified interval.
Kissgen is a Win32 application and has been tested on Windows 95 and
Windows 2000. No installation procedure is required other than unzipping
the kissgen.zip file (from the download page) into a directory of your
choice. Run it from a command line prompt (DOS box).
Kissgen requires 4 command line parameters. These are:
1) input_file --> name of the file
containg the TNC-2 type
frames
2) serial_port --> a number from 1 to 4
indicating which comport
you'd like to use
3) baud_rate --> valid values are 110,
300, 600, 1200, 2400,
4800, 7200, 9600, 14400,
19200, 38400, 57600 and
115200.
4) pause_time --> number of seconds
([1..60]) to pause
between the transmission
of frames
An example of how to start kissgen from the command line:
kissgen frames.txt 2 9600 3
This will start kissgen on serial port 2 (COM2) at 9600 baud with 3 seconds between frames and it will read the frames from the file "frames.txt".
I have made no provisions to set the number of data bits, number of stop bits or the parity. Kissgen will assume the "standard" 8 databits, 1 stop bit and No parity bits.
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