gen(1)

gen1

Program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation

Usage

gen [options] output_file

Overview

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.

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.

Examples

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

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0–3.1
  2. 4.0–13

-a since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -d since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -p since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -t since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -z since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

--help until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --version until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h until Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -v until Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

This manual page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From multimon 1.0-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.