Re: [Xastir] Map Load Speed

2008-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
as other raster-format images, but when zoomed in you have the full capability of vector files. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer ill

Re: [Xastir] (no subject)

2008-05-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
something useful. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked

Re: [Xastir] bootstrap.sh error

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
ies for a while with automake/autoconf, it might be worth a shot. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. T

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
hem is still good. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked

Re: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
clients that support it) seems to be down. Send a note to Dale Huguley, KG5QD, about it. We could add that info to the APRS Wiki so that there's a backup for it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people wh

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
or FTP could be used to distribute the files. If it was a bunch of Linux/Unix boxes, you could use "rdist" across and SSH pipe to distribute them nicely. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who a

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
both our screens looked the same. It would have been nicer to send the info across to the other station the way that APRS+SA can do. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows:

RE: [Xastir] Transmit Shapefile ?

2008-05-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
ng tactical calls and sharing that information with others in the > field. APRS+SA as I recall had a method to do that. I believe it's listed on the feature request list for Xastir to implement the same method, but has not been implemented yet. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Fedora 9: yum install xastir - fine business but map help needed

2008-05-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > That should make a link like this: > > /usr/local/share/xastir -> /usr/share/xastir > > So that Xastir thinks everything is in the "regular" location. > > Of course I might have this backwards, depending on how your bi

Re: [Xastir] Fedora 9: yum install xastir - fine business but map help needed

2008-05-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
/share/xastir -> /usr/share/xastir So that Xastir thinks everything is in the "regular" location. Of course I might have this backwards, depending on how your binary was compiled and what paths are in your Xastir config file. It should give you something to work with though, so twe

Re: [Xastir] Interface Hard Fail

2008-05-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
.04 and Xastir 1.7, but trying to > upgrade. su chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illi

Re: [Xastir] APRS-IS Time Stamps

2008-05-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
the time the packet was received at his server. He ignores the timestamp in the packet itself. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illit

[Xastir] OpenSUSE-10.3: Latest GraphicsMagick is broken

2008-05-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
GraphicsMagick-devel-1.1.8-20.2 libGraphicsMagick++-devel-1.1.8-20.2 libGraphicsMagick++1-1.1.8-20.2 -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's ta

Re: [Xastir] Speech not remembering check box

2008-05-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
full feed, the speech can't keep up and you get continuous speech until you frantically kill something or some minutes after you shut down the interface. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who a

Re: [Xastir] Zypad?

2008-04-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
n one might be able to install Xastir on it. I didn't go off and look at the docs to see. How much are they asking for it? Is it a real product yet? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad

Re: [Xastir] Map help

2008-04-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
instructions on this. This method works best on maps with very few colors defined. If you have a picture-quality map, like an aerial photo or something, it's not going to work well for you. If you have a CAD-drawn map like a USGS DRG topo that only has something like 16 colors defined, it works V

Re: [Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

2008-04-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
nto Xastir retry mechanisms for network ports. You should be able to yank the port out from under Xastir, restart it, and have Xastir reconnect to it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad

Re: [Xastir] Configure Speech Window (all selections greyed out) (Part 2)

2008-04-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
g what I > want speech to do.. Try re-running "./configure" for Xastir to see if it picks up on the fact that Festival is available? Before doing that you might check whether Festival support is compiled into Xastir (Help->About). -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] bluetooth serial port issues

2008-04-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
gram to see if it locks up in a similiar manner. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around

Re: [Xastir] Re: Missing Longitude data (FIXED)

2008-04-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
blank at that spot in a packet is a legal character. Will have to go to the spec and the addendums to figure it out. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft

Re: [Xastir] Findu fetch trails ?

2008-04-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
aked to run under OpenSuSE-10.3. I started down that path but there's more work to do. Until those are working there won't be any LSB builds. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - un

Re: [Xastir] Configure Speech Window (all selections greyed out)

2008-04-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
the Festival daemon. Xastir uses the daemon mode rather than invoking it from the command line. This means the daemon needs to be running all the time in order for Xastir to make use of it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A ta

Re: [Xastir] hung up on maptools script

2008-04-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
./configure --with-ld-shared="gcc -shared" make else ./configure make fi 2>&1 >>${XA_LIB}.build.$$ - -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on pe

[Xastir] Re: Good news....

2008-04-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
to 1.9.3 also, the only thing here is everytime I exit from the > Interface menu Xastir crashes. Using Lesstif or Motif? It should say in your Help->About dialog. Try the opposite one if available. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo

Re: [Xastir] Xastir crash

2008-04-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
ing from Xastir at home. Easy enough to check if I remember to do so. What else might it be? Perhaps the weather alerts? I'm not getting many of those at home on RF. Perhaps zero. Using tigermap server at home and at work. No snapshots turned on. No radar geo'

Re: [Xastir] Xastir crash

2008-04-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
braries has a major memory leak. I restarted it yesterday and it's showing 518MB virtual, 489MB resident, 6424 shared right now. That's pretty bad. So... Is it possible that you're just running out of memory? That's what mine is doing. I haven't tried to find out

Re: [Xastir] TCPXX to RF

2008-04-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
en on RF. Normally the only things that get gated to RF are messages and message acknowledgements (ACK's). Those get gated to/fro automatically without having to add callsigns to each gate. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] error motif

2008-04-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
install Motif development headers or use --with-motif-includes to > specify location of Xm/Xm.h http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Installation_Notes I'm not a Mac user, so that's about as much as I can point you to. Hopefully some of the Mac guys will ans

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
log. Xastir is not opening the port. If it was, it'd be green. Stop worrying about the file and start worrying about the port itself. Dumb-terminal program... Verify the settings/port/permissions when run as a normal user. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at es

Re: [Xastir] USRadar problems

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
refix everything with gm, so everything is the "gm" command. Something like: gm convert instead of convert Man page will tell you the correct syntax. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who

Re: [Xastir] USRadar problems

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
#x27;s a WMS server, and Xastir has special code written to handle that. The image is generated to your specifications on the WMS server and then downloaded by Xastir over the network connection. It's really slick. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http:

Re: [Xastir] USRadar problems

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
he above as he's been around our mailing list for a bunch of years now. The above is for the new people that don't know this stuff yet. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unk

Re: [Xastir] cached maps

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Murry wrote: > > > How do I bring up the cached maps? > > Access the same internet map as before, at the same zoom, panning, > and Xastir window size as you originally used. If it is in the > cache Xastir wil

Re: [Xastir] cached maps

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
rly well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coor

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
an one. I think they'll often disconnect you from one if they sense you connected to another. If you have more than one set up to auto-connect, that may cause you to bounce back and forth between the two every few minutes. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http:/

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
n. Some of your paths to various things can be messed up in your config file, pointing to the old install location for Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: M

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
p. You may need a null-modem adapter, or you may be plugging into the wrong port on the radio (I've heard of other people having that problem). It's usually something simple. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
get a brain storm be sure to let me > know... oh... 9600bps right? http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/XASTIR_Manual#Kenwood_TM-D700_with_GPS -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - u

Re: [Xastir] Ubuntu 7.10 and XASTIR

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
our hardware) and then disappear. What window manager are you using? Can you switch to another one easily to see if that solves this particular problem? I have a large choice of window managers on my system. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo

Re: [Xastir] Slax and Fonts

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
ced that OpenSUSE changed to something like UTF-8, where Xastir wants to see "C" or "US_en", else your config files won't work properly. I don't know for sure if that will affect the displayed fonts as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskim

Re: [Xastir] Slax and Fonts

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
e solution? I may have suggested such earlier in this thread. If so, ignore. ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. -

Re: [Xastir] version interactions?

2008-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
avail. Is it possible that dhcp is still running even though have a static address on the box now, and trying to change your address periodically? Any other process running on the box that might be messing with your networking? Particularly something that might have the capability of stopping/resta

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
ky" flag. On my system it appears as a 'T' if the 'x' flag is not set, and a 't' is the 'x' flag _is_ set. Hard to keep track of isn't it? You're probably good here with either a 't' or an 'x' in that last position for t

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
l port... > in case you haven't hit this, on the mac you'll probably want to "sudo > cmd" for each of the commands Curt mentioned, instead of doing an su > first. I never know if people have /etc/sudoers set up properly and know how to use sudo, so often I quote the

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
local/share/xastir/tnc-startup.d700 but I just noticed, its permissions > are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 > don't they have to be executable? Nope. Just readable by any user, which they are. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
not say. Look at the same files you originally checked to determine the name of the device. Check whether it's changed on you. Are you getting any error messages to the Xterm you start Xastir on? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~arc

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
what I have on my system. The contents of the file are the process ID of the main Xastir process. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
: cd /var su mkdir lock chmod 1775 lock exit # (from root) The reason for the chmod command is that the sticky bit should be set. At least that's how it is on my Linux box here: drwxrwxr-t 5 root uucp 4096 2008-04-09 16:06 lock -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Debian Etch - no maps

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
say "libcurl" on the "Libraries used:" line? If not, did you install "libcurl-devel" or similar package before you compiled Xastir, or just "libcurl". Xastir will use "wget" to fetch maps if libcurl/libcurl-devel are not present when y

Re: [Xastir] D700 Connection

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
that each time after you do a fresh "make install" of Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE

Re: [Xastir] A rant on the shapefiles...

2008-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
ata as their base and add to/correct it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve a

Re: [Xastir] Timing Menu

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
omething. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coor

Re: [Xastir] Timing Menu

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
doesn't have the bug. It's a known bug with later versions of Motif. Other programs besides Xastir have the same problem. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows

Re: [Xastir] iBook USB to MacBook Pro USB

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
I'm feeling (if not looking) much better. Whoa... Obviously you made the right choice, health over Xastir. hi hi Glad to hear you're doing well! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are

Re: [Xastir] Findu Trail

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
-working package on Linux. Lastly: There's been a change on findu.com that makes the fetch tracks function not work. I'll try to get on that and fix it soon. I need to talk to Steve Dimse and figure out what changes are acceptable. He sent me an e-mail about it while I was on va

Re: [Xastir] Re: Xastir web interface?

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
t creating snapshots that alternate with the Mt. Saint Helens webcam as my root image (background image) on my FVWM2 desktop. Every ten minutes it switches between the two. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on peopl

Re: [Xastir] Map Directory

2008-04-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
er) If you have more than one Xastir user on the system, make sure that the maps are readable by all, and not just the user who owns the files. The "chmod -R 755" command will recursively change the permissions: Be careful what directory you're in when you run it! -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir and Slackware Slax

2008-03-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
d it's picking something goofy from what's available. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate syste

Re: [Xastir] iBook USB to MacBook Pro USB

2008-03-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
the device and see what shows up. With my USB joystick I had to do some more stuff before I could use it with BZFlag, but the above method told me which port it was on. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft'

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Slackware Slax

2008-03-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
uctions in the INSTALL document to compile/install. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___

Re: [Xastir] inf2geo uiview converted maps

2008-03-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
latest code) will prefer GraphicsMagick over ImageMagick if both are installed and both have devel files. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- W

Re: [Xastir] inf2geo uiview converted maps

2008-03-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
ead of the map at any zoom level. Most likely your ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick package was compiled with the wrong quantum depth. For the LSB binary I configure GraphicsMagick with this flag: --with-quantum-depth=16 -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are ba

Re: [Xastir] IGating APRS OBJECTS?

2008-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
de the program itself, the "Configure Default Operation" section) WRT the nws-stations.txt file. This is the file which tells Xastir which "FROM" callsigns to gate data to RF for. By default Xastir only gates messages and message ack's/nak's to/from RF if you enable the

Re: [Xastir] Xastir on Mac OS X 10.5. Leopard

2008-02-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
at it's worth, various Linux's (Linuxii?) went through an unstable period as well when many distributions switched from XFree86 to Xorg. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illite

Re: [Xastir] KML Snapshots

2008-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
ome time to catch up... I think he just added it this week or last. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES

Re: [Xastir] ImageMagick upgrade

2008-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
nary that uses the new library. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___

Re: [Xastir] What county am I in?

2008-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
ere, I can see the county names at proper zoom levels with that map and the proper dbfawk file for it. As far as the Maidenhead grid, it's printed on the status line to the right of whatever your other coordinate system is that you've chosen. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A

Re: [Xastir] GPS question, off topic.

2008-02-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
atellites themselves. If you have any blockage to the south, say bye-bye to your WAAS corrections. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revol

Re: [Xastir] Xastir cigars

2008-02-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
le in Ubuntu. Is it also possible that it's a missing font problem, where the ATI driver in your case provide more fonts? A thought I just had, may have nothing to do with the problem. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknow

Re: [Xastir] Xastir LSB with Ubuntu ?

2008-02-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
>convert_from_xastir_coordinates:X out-of-range (too high):161465600 Ignore those. Those are caused by being zoomed out too far. I suspect you're at "world" size on your map when you get those. Depending on the aspect ratio of your Xastir window and your zoom level, Xastir complai

Re: [Xastir] Group Messages

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > A quick glance at the while loop which reads it in makes me think > that each group name is on a separate line with a linefeed (or > alternately linefeed & carriage return) at the end of each line. > Actually it looks like they expect up

Re: [Xastir] Group Messages

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
think that each group name is on a separate line with a linefeed (or alternately linefeed & carriage return) at the end of each line. Actually it looks like they expect up to 9 characters and then a linefeed, which is enough for a six-character callsign, a dash, and a 2-character SSID. --

Re: [Xastir] MPR support

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > Do you know what datum the TOP50 CDROM's are published in? The map > projection used? I see there's a conversion program (mpr2geotiff) that will allow you to convert these maps to geoTIFF files: http://libmpr.origo.ethz.ch/wiki/doc

Re: [Xastir] MPR support

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
or those images alone, and in fact only works somewhat well on the 7.5' maps, other scales it's not so good at. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates.

Re: [Xastir] Custom unproto path for Objects/Items

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
th an object, and to the object transmit code, so it's non-trivial. That said, I don't have time to do this right now. If another developer wants to pick up on this I'd be glad to help with pointers as to where to do the work. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax

Re: [Xastir] OpenStreetMap?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
rmat they're doing things in anymore. If it's something we support, it shouldn't be hard to use their maps. If it's not, then it'd take some significant effort in order to write/test a new map module for Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on peo

Re: [Xastir] Map source?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
you'll want to look for ESRI Shapefile format. > I have found a library reference to the DRG CDs located at Southern New > Hampshire University. I have not attempted to visit yet. Unmodified USGS DRG files are something that we can handle. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto:

[Xastir] Xastir and Mac OS X Leopard (fwd)

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
Please respond to the list -and- to Ernst directly if you have the answer. His message to the list bounced so he may not see your response otherwise. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on

[Xastir] Re: Libcurl not installed? Mac OS X

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
ly the admins saw it. Also, the list was down for the last couple of weeks anyway. You need to install the libcurl development package which has the "*.h" files, then re-run Xastir's "./configure", "make", and "make install" commands to compile a new Xa

[Xastir] Re: cant start program

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
path and add scripts and links there, then the loader can find them. Sometimes I add aliases to my shell. You can also add /usr/local/bin to your path, then you don't need the symlink that you created at all. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math."

Re: [Xastir] wx data display as continuous shades?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
a before displaying in that manner though, so we don't get displays that don't reflect reality. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The

Re: [Xastir] possible feature request: new "select station types to display" dialog?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
selected > for callsign/speed/heading/age/wx data/etc), icon only, or no display, would > be useful (haven't thought so much about that one). Good ideas. Add them to the feature request list so they're not forgotten. When it comes time to do the rewrite we'll want to get

Re: [Xastir] possible feature request: new "select station types to display" dialog?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
more > easily than the "Map Chooser" and the > "View"->"Mobile Stations" etc. Agreed for the map layers. We'll be thinking a lot about that sort of thing for the rewrite. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math.&

Re: [Xastir] WX stations connection ?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
r via the WX200 daemon. Those are your only choice (again for that particular weather station). > Has anybody got it connected using a USB to serial converter ? I'm using a TNC connected that way. Weather should work similarly. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax o

Re: [Xastir] Xastir install and compile tutorial

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
after that. Can someone help > me through this just to get it up and running? Are you using the Xastir Wiki instructions? The list was down for a couple of weeks, so ask again if you're still having trouble and somebody should answer that can help you. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "L

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
ey're big! -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! __

Re: [Xastir] Can you view GPS data?

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
l you when it last heard from the GPS. Another way: Go to File->Configure->Change Debug Level and enter 128, then click OK. You should start seeing the GPS strings on the xterm you started Xastir from. Enter a '0' on that same dialog and hit OK again to stop the output. -- Cur

Re: [Xastir] Vector Formats.

2008-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
file is not standard (which things are in which columns, the names of columns, etc). Shapefiles can be very fast to read in or reject, as they have a bounding box for the entire file, and a bounding box for each shape. You can quickly look at a file and reject it if no part of the boundin

Re: [Xastir] WX station question

2008-02-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
Major_Features I wrote the original web page that Wiki page was derived from, and I went through the sources to figure it out. Been a while though. I have a LaCrosse and a Dallas weather station to play with, but no RS/Oregon Scientific/Huger stations. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto:

[Xastir] Xastir Development Release

2008-02-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
MySQL/PostgreSQL databases. LSB and SuSE-RPM binary packages have been updated also. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates.&qu

Re: [Xastir] Can you view GPS data?

2008-02-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
LS file. Once you get practiced at reading the output, you might be able to find what you need. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer il

RE: [Xastir] Re: [ubuntulinux] Re: Screen Resolution problem

2008-02-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Earl Needham wrote: > > Well I think I got 'er goin', except I'm still trying to > figure out how to connect to the GPS and TNC from within > VMWare. I'll fol with it for a while and maybe get it done. Can someone running VMWa

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
weird too connecting Xastir to an AGWPE instance across the country, which I did for debugging purposes a few times. Having an RF presence in another state thousands of miles away is just strange. Neat setup you have there! -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are

Re: [Xastir] Fedora Wiki, possible tweak

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Richard Polivka wrote: > Should be pcre-devel. Thanks. Wiki has been updated to reflect this. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U T

Re: [Xastir] Fixes and Addons

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
ems there though, fair warning. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: > You could take a look at the Xastir FAQ: There are some packages > mentioned there for doing serial->net->serial port stuff on Linux. By that I mean the FAQ file distributed with Xastir, not the one on the web site. The distributed file is

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
; solutions (B&B Electronics) which include a driver to implement a 'virtual > serial port' locally, but that's more $$$ and closed, so I don't want to > go there. You could take a look at the Xastir FAQ: There are some packages mentioned there for doing serial->

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
t; a 'serial server' or a 'terminal server', so that if you were to telnet to > the server port, you'd see the same data stream as if you ran minicom on > the serial-connected wx station. Nope. Unfortunately. In this case it connects to the One Wire Weather daemon

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
here to add things in. I'd be glad to look at any patches you come up with. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I pick

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and Ultimeter weather station

2008-01-22 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Chip Griffin wrote: > I'm leaning toward > One-Wire Weather (OWW) but haven't even been able to determine if it > is compatible with Xastir yet. Yes. I did the integration of that with Xastir myself. It works. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lot

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