Is there any software still being maintained for running a CW beacon-
like TX in command line Linux?

I am looking for something that could use a serial or parallel port to
send any specified text file, which would make it capable of sending
dynamically generated content (acquired or mailed-in and written to
text).

I saw
- cwbeacon, which seems self-contained, scriptable (in the above
sense), but extremely old, unsupported, not included in any current
repository;
- cwdaemon for UDP to port keying, where UDP might either simplify
things OR be an unnecessary passage;
- unixcw, which is alleged to port-key as an "option" - but I can't
see it..

Is this all? Is there a howto I missed? Is such CLI capability hidden
into any GUI app - e.g. as in the vlc-nox player?

tnx es 73 de n1jpr

On Jan 19, 12:53*pm, spamhog wrote:
Is there any software still being maintained for running a CW beacon-
like TX in command line Linux?

I am looking for something that could use a serial or parallel port to
send any specified text file, which would make it capable of sending
dynamically generated content (acquired or mailed-in and written to
text).

I saw
- cwbeacon, which seems self-contained, scriptable (in the above
sense), but *extremely old, unsupported, not included in any current
repository;
- cwdaemon for UDP to port keying, where UDP might *either simplify
things OR be an unnecessary passage;
- unixcw, which is alleged to port-key as an "option" - but I can't
see it..

Is this all? Is there a howto I missed? Is such CLI capability hidden
into any GUI app - e.g. as in the vlc-nox *player?

tnx es 73 de n1jpr

I just found cwbeacon at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/ham/morse/

The C code is a little crufty but typical of 90's stuff. You have to
use sys/io.h instead of asm/io.h.

It worked on the one PC I had, that had a real parallel port.

Another option on more modern hardware without a parallel port would
be something like a WKUSB, to drive it you just open up a serial port
(over USB) and send. The WKUSB is really nifty.