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6 kissutil - KISS TNC troubleshooting and Application Interface.
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11 kissutil [ options ]
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17 kissutil can be used interactively for troubleshooting a KISS TNC. It
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27 Hostname or IP address for a TCP KISS TNC. Default is local‐
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69 Applications in this package: aclients, atest, decode_aprs, direwolf,
70 gen_packets, kissutil, ll2utm, log2gpx, text2tt, tt2text, utm2ll
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