Re: APRS Parser

["Chuck Hast" <wchast@gmail.com>]

On 6/20/06, Curt, WE7U <archer@eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jeff Laughlin wrote:
>
> > I started on an APRS parser written in perl. It handles most of the
> > major bits of the standard and I used it to dump APRS data into
> > postgresql and it kept up with the global APRS internet feeds no
> > problem, in fact I was suprised at how fast it was. It turned out that
> > PostgreSQL consumed vastly more system resources than the parser and
> > that was mostly disk IO, CPU load was relatively light. It could
> > certainly still use some work but it's functional and well documented
> > and I included example code. You can get it from
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ham-aprs-parser/
>
> There's also the Perl APRS code that Ian wrote (the APRS spec
> editor) which validates packets.  I should have a copy of it around
> somewhere if you can't find it on the 'net.  That would be excellent
> code to have around as an example, just because it was at one time
> the most complete Perl decoder implementation.
>
> On SourceForge I believe there are C++ classes and perhaps Java code
> for parsing APRS sentences, and of course the Xastir project
> (SourceForge again) has a bunch of C code.  It's a _bunch_ of C code
> though!
>
> I also have Perl code for authenticating on the 'net if you'd like
> that.  It's a direct Perl translation of the C-code that Steve Dimse
> published and I use it extensively in my Perl scripts which inject
> objects into Firenet.
>

Curt,
Thank you, I will go dig it up too, I am not a coder, but will try anything if
I have enough samples!!

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