gen - program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation
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Description
This manual page documents briefly the gen
command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program
does not have a manual page.
multimon is a program that decodes radio transmissions, gen generates modulated files suitable for
decoding with multimon.
Example
Create a file /tmp/message.wav containing sound samples of packet radio message:
gen -p "This is a message." -t raw /tmp/message.wav
To dial a number directly to the sound card output:
gen -d 8675309
Name
gen - program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation
Options
-t<type>
output file type (any other type than raw requires sox).
allowed types: raw aiff au hcom sf voc cdr dat smp wav maud vwe
-a<ampl>
amplitude.
-d<str>
encode DTMF string.
-z<str>
encode ZVEI string.
-s<freq>
encode sine of given frequency.
-p<text>
encode hdlc packet using specified text.
See Also
multimon(1)
Synopsis
gen [options] output_file
