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37 .Nd reformat input as morse code
49 command reads the given input and reformats it in the form of morse code.
50 Acceptable input are command line arguments or the standard input.
53 .Bl -tag -width indent
57 option produces output suitable for
63 option produces dots and dashes rather than words.
65 Send morse the real way.
66 This only works if your system has
70 Set the sending speed in words per minute.
71 If not specified, the default
72 speed of 20 WPM is used.
75 Set the spacing between characters in words per minute.
76 This is independent of the speed
77 that the individual characters are sent.
78 If not specified, defaults to the effective value of the
82 Set the sidetone frequency to something other than the default 600 Hz.
86 but use the RTS line of
88 (which must be a TTY device)
89 in order to emit the morse code.
91 Echo each character before it is sent, used together with either
96 Decode morse output consisting of dots and dashes (as generated by using
106 flags only work in conjunction with either the
112 Not all prosigns have corresponding characters.
127 The more common prosigns are
142 it is possible to key an external device, like a sidetone generator with
143 a headset for training purposes, or even your ham radio transceiver.
145 the latter, simply connect an NPN transistor to the serial port
147 emitter connected to ground, base connected through a resistor
148 (few kiloohms) to RTS, collector to the key line of your transceiver
149 (assuming the transceiver has a positive key supply voltage and is keyed
150 by grounding the key input line).
151 A capacitor (some nanofarads) between
152 base and ground is advisable to keep stray RF away,
154 minor glitch that is generated during program startup.
158 locale codeset determines how
159 characters with the high-order bit set
162 .Bl -tag -width ".Li ISO8859-15" -compact
165 Interpret characters with the high-order bit set as Western European characters.
168 Interpret characters with the high-order bit set as Cyrillic characters.
171 Interpret characters with the high-order bit set as Greek characters.
174 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/speaker" -compact
185 .An Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM) Aq Mt lyndon@orthanc.ca .
187 Ability to key an external device added by
191 Farnsworth support for
194 .An Stephen Cravey (N5UUU).
196 Only understands a few European characters
199 and no continental landline code.
201 Sends a bit slower than it should due to system overhead.
202 Some people would call this a feature.