morse-classic¶
Text-to-Morse sounder and trainer, Eric Raymond's morse-classic
- Version recorded: 2.6
- Categories:
cw,morse-training - Upstream: https://gitlab.com/esr/morse-classic
What it does¶
Sounds text as Morse and drills you on it, with a mode that sends random groups and checks what you type back. It is the long-lived Unix morse program, maintained by Eric Raymond as morse-classic.
Why you would want it¶
It is small, has no dependencies worth the name, and does the one thing without ceremony. On a headless or minimal machine where aldo's or qrq's interfaces are more than you want, this still works.
Before it will work¶
A sound device for audio output; it can also print the dots and dashes, which is occasionally what you want when checking an encoding by eye.
How it installs¶
- apt:
morse
This displaces the distribution's own pipewire-alsa (D-022: coexist, disclose, never remove silently).
Known problems¶
Its teaching model is the plain speed-up approach rather than Koch, so as a learning tool it is weaker than aldo. As a converter and a sounder it is fine, and that is the use to keep it for.
Keeping it current¶
- probe: apt policy
- strategy: apt_upgrade
Where to get help with the software itself¶
GitLab issues at the project above.