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Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a tracker, digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). For more information, look at the bottom 1/4 of this page and in https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/dev/doc/README.md
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Defaulting to no color for output #494

Closed sarcasticadmin closed 8 months ago

sarcasticadmin commented 8 months ago

I wanted to discuss the idea of default to no color -t 0 for direwolf. This way direwolf has a sensible default that "just works" across the board. Users can then explicit set which colors that best fit their output needs via the -t flag. I found the current default output -t 1 a surprise when it was a white background + colors on my black background terminal, and I assumed that something was wrong with my build/configuration/environment.

It looks like this has been somewhat of an ongoing discussion:

sarcasticadmin commented 8 months ago

Closing per comment https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/pull/495#issuecomment-1796966612