CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Subject to change without prior notice.

Poking around with FSD

Much of the poking around can be done in Wireshark. See this blog post on how to do that.

If you want to directly "poke" a FSD server by pretending to be a client and actually communicate with it, you can use telnet:

$ telnet (server address) 6809
Trying (server address)...
Connected to (server address).
Escape character is '^]'.
$DISERVER:CLIENT:VATSIM FSD V3.13:a93e2926340a

Notes:

• telnet is a command-line utility included in Linux and Mac OSX. On Windows, you'll need to enable it first (see here) before you can use it the command prompt. The syntax is the same, however.
• The homepage of the documentation (see GitHub repo page for link) contains information on where to find a list of FSD server addresses for IVAO/VATSIM.

Once connected, simply type in correctly-formatted FSD packets and press Enter to send them.

Markdown conventions

Section headers

Section headers should be surrounded with #s on both sides, with a space between the text and the #s:

## Section header ##

Code blocks

Don't forget to indicate the language after the 3 backticks.

Example:

​```bash
(content)
​```

Do not indicate the language for blocks containing FSD packets.

Yes:

​```
#AA(callsign):SERVER:(full name):(ID):(password):1:100 
​```

No:

​```fsd
#AA(callsign):SERVER:(full name):(ID):(password):1:100 
​```

Submitting changes

Please open a GitHub pull request in the repository, and indicate the changes you've made in the title/comments.

If you're not sure what exactly you want to change (and therefore don't want to submit a pull request), create an issue on the Issues page.