Re: [Xastir] Kiss Serial Port Digipeating

2007-04-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
rectly back out that interface. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
tif-devel, but now I don't have to... ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U &q

RE: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
indows world a > lot. Sorry to hear that... I get to use Solaris and Linux at work, and Linux at home. It's a nice world. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Mi

Re: [Xastir] Administrative Note

2007-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
e "names" of the people editing, I assume it was an automated script doing the damage. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterate

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
e problem lies. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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 revolv

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
Xastir's digi function is a bit limited, and not really > intended to take the place of a full-up digipeater. Absolutely correct. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Mi

[Xastir] Forums: RIP

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
Sourceforge.org Forums are gone. Even the Forums tab at the top is gone. www.xastir.org Forums are gone, including the shortcut at the top. It's a much better Xastir world out there. Thanks Chuck! We'll rely on the two mailing lists, as we always have before. -- Curt, WE7U. A

[Xastir] Sneaky: Forums

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
I wasn't able to do this. If I could have run it through "formail" or something I could have fixed this too. I backed out the changes I made to the forums and the list. Chuck: Ok to delete the two remaining forums? If so I'll get that done right away. -- Curt, WE7U. APR

Re: [Xastir] [continued] Apparent wiki vandalism.

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
l:Recentchanges> -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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 re

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Rice, MA Mark @ IS wrote: > > > Can someone point out what those sliders are for, or direct me to an > > online page that discusses it? I tried looking through the > > documentation, but couldn't seem to f

Re: [Xastir] Configuration of operation not clear

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
in) RINO -> Objects Interval (min), 0=Disabled Snapshot Interval (min) On the right: - Station Ghosting Time (min) Station Clear Time (hours) Station Delete Time (days) Serial Inter-Char Delay (ms) New Track Interval (degrees) Internet Map Timeout (sec) -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comp

Re: [Xastir] www.xastir.org "User Support Forum" again

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > > I gotta say, I really am even more convinced that the web-based "User > > Support" > > forum is worse than useless --- nobody with answers seems to read it, and > > every

Re: [Xastir] Tiger map data?

2007-04-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
apefiles. Shapefiles are our preferred vector format. If you install GDAL/OGR just to do Tiger/Line data, you'll be even more disappointed in the results, both for aesthetic reasons and for speed reasons. Tiger/Line is a terrible format for actually drawing maps, and very slow. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
ust looked at that area of the code this morning. It requires debug_level=2 in order to see the lockfile messages on STDERR. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > Try this patch. I'm hesitant to add it to CVS at the moment due to > > the impending release, but apply it to your local sources and see if > > it gives you the indications you'

Re: [Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > Try this patch. I'm hesitant to add it to CVS at the moment due to > the impending release, but apply it to your local sources and see if > it gives you the indications you're looking for. This is what I get on my system if I try to

Re: [Xastir] improved error messages for interface failures?

2007-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
a feature request in case the > information is already there and I'm overlooking it. Try this patch. I'm hesitant to add it to CVS at the moment due to the impending release, but apply it to your local sources and see if it gives you the indications you're looking for. -- Curt,

Re: [Xastir] Possible makefile error...Apr 6 devel release

2007-04-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
ed on your system you might try "./bootstrap.sh" first, then retry your configure/make commands. There's a small possibility that the "configure" script distributed in the package doesn't work on your system. bootstrap.sh will create a new one, as well as new Makefi

Re: [Xastir] Compiling version 1.8.5

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
>Properties to change the map level. Lower numbers get loaded first, so higher numbers have priority. Use any numbers you like. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft&#x

Re: [Xastir] Install issue on OSx

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
o see the last debug messages that get printed before it crashes. It'll also create a "debug.log" file that you can look at later. You're obviously on a Mac since you're using "/sw". Any of you Mac users out there run into this? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Clien

Re: [Xastir] LSB-Xastir and SuSE RPM's Updated

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > LSB-Xastir and the SuSE-10.0 RPM's have been updated to the latest > Xasir-1.8.5 development code. They're available from the ftp site. > > I sure love scripts... I updated the binary downloads page to show where to ge

[Xastir] LSB-Xastir and SuSE RPM's Updated

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
LSB-Xastir and the SuSE-10.0 RPM's have been updated to the latest Xasir-1.8.5 development code. They're available from the ftp site. I sure love scripts... -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at ma

[Xastir] [SourceForge.net Release] xastir : xastir-development

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
Project: XASTIR (xastir) Package: xastir-development Date : 2007-04-06 10:44 Project "XASTIR" ('xastir') has released the new version of package 'xastir-development'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:

[Xastir] Status of release, plus PLEASE SUBMIT TRANSLATIONS!

2007-04-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
er development snapshot shortly. I've been doing it twice a month but skipped the middle March and early April release. Too busy. Once the newly-found bug has been solved I'd like to release xastir-1.9.0 (stable). -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] Compiling version 1.8.5

2007-04-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
; just to get past that problem for now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U &q

Re: [Xastir] Broken II

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
datadir}" = "x"; then CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DXASTIR_DATA_BASE=\\\"${ac_default_prefix}/share/xastir\\\"" else CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DXASTIR_DATA_BASE=\\\"${datadir}/xastir\\\"" fi -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~ar

Re: [Xastir] Broken II

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
path in ~/.xastir/conf/xastir.cnf -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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 DOE

Re: [Xastir] Lockup Troubles (Mac)

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
m to make them more efficient. It has little to do with figuring out where something crashes. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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] Broken II

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
t would be "/usr/local/share/xastir/config/". Perhaps you blew away your entire Xastir install set of directories? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft

Re: [Xastir] Announcing Splat 1.2.0b with support for Xastir .geo files

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
) has recently > released version 1.2.0b which now has support for generating Xastir .geo > files so that the topo map output can be displayed directly in Xastir. That's really cool. I may have to play with that! As I recall Splat wasn't that hard to compile. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Lockup Troubles (Mac)

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
s catch what we want though. Your debugger needs to be thread-aware as Xastir uses multiple threads (and processes too for that matter). This is pretty serious developer-type stuff though, so no biggie if you don't want to head down this path. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http:/

Re: [Xastir] Xastir install on Kubuntu

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
hat sets the compression level for cvs commands. Try commenting it out by adding a '#' character in front of that line. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's

Re: [Xastir] RE: ancient history question: HK232

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
the TNC gets reset? If the procedure can be automated in the Xastir startup files, we could add an HK232-specific startup file to Xastir. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microso

Re: [Xastir] RE Maps

2007-04-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
n, or else reindex all which should index them no matter how old/new the files are. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on compu

Re: [Xastir] RE Maps

2007-03-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
a look at this site: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/a/archer/aprs/xastir/ Examine the "SUSE-RPM" and "LSB" directories. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows:

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-03-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > In any case, depending on what map libraries you have compiled in, > you can download maps that match. Help->About again will tell you > which map libraries you have installed. > > There are topo maps in two different scales available f

Re: [Xastir] Maps

2007-03-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
have some very knowledgable Canadian Xastir users on here, so I expect you'll be seeing some messages from them on this list shortly. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Micr

[Xastir] GDAL Web Site Migration (fwd)

2007-03-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
This probably affects links we have on our Xastir Wiki, on the Maps page (different Wiki), and in our online and text docs. Please help find these locations so we can fix them. Thanks. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people wh

Re: [Xastir] No Maps .... Still

2007-03-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
talling from source isn't all that bad. Assuming you have a development environment and a bit of free disk space of course. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft'

Re: [Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
AX.25 spec allows six characters in the callsign field, no more. You also get 4 bits to stuff an SSID into, which is why they can go from 0 to 15. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "

Re: [Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
inary or hex. Or octal if I have to. ;-) I'm just trying to comply with the software release HOWTO, which specifies decimal numbers. Major.Minor.Patchlevel -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unk

Re: [Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

2007-03-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
a bit. Right now we're sending APX185. We'd need to send APX110 which would appear to be going backwards in our revisions. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Micros

[Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

2007-03-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
sed to be patch levels for a release, as in major.minor.patch numbering. If we adopted this strategy then we could go with 2.1 for our next development version and 2.2 for the following stable release. Thoughts? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:

Re: [Xastir] Lockup Troubles (Mac)

2007-03-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
u pass flags to configure if necessary in order to help Xastir find them if it can't find them automatically. On OpenSuSE-10.0 I don't have to pass any flags to configure to get map caching compiled in. Regarding your lockups, did you compile Xastir against Lesstif or OpenMotif? I&#

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
ure, but did you ever look at the code I had to write in order to make it usable in Xastir? That work made me an instant enemy of the file format. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "W

Re: [Xastir] www.xastir.org "User Support Forum" again

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
read and respond, plus requires no action on my part to regularly keep track of things. If Chuck okays it, I'll be more than happy to close the forums. Only he or I can make that happen. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on peo

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
l script came from the GDAL/OGR project. "ogr2ogr" should be able to do more normal conversions for you between vector formats supported by OGR. It comes with GDAL/OGR. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who ar

Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
s really just several database tables dumped to disk files in text format. A real pain to construct anything out of. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] No Maps .... Still

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
rs. There may be another package called something like graphicsmagick-devel perhaps? from the same place you found the other package. In order to compile anything that uses libraries, you need the header files installed as well. Often these are in a separate "dev" or "devel" package wit

Re: [Xastir] Format of track files

2007-03-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Portal Chris wrote: > Any way to set the format of items in a *.trk file from Station Info -> > Store Track? > > Specifically, the lat/lon to dd. format? Only by changing the source and recompiling. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.esk

Re: [Xastir] Question regarding Linux OS

2007-03-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
d Base. Many do nowadays, often by installing an "lsb" package from your distribution. LSB-Xastir is listed in the "Binary Downloads" section under "Linux". -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people

Re: [Xastir] Question regarding Linux OS

2007-03-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
d among the Xastir users, as well as FreeBSD. Then there are the non-PC users and several choices of OS there depending on platform. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: M

Re: [Xastir] Daylight saving time?

2007-03-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
I found out _way_ too much stuff about timezones recently. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U &qu

Re: [Xastir] Daylight saving time?

2007-03-21 Thread Curt, WE7U
t have any major problems if you jump forwards by an hour. It might get real busy for a few seconds at the time of the jump, but then things should settle down. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are

[Xastir] Test post, please delete

2007-03-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
-- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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:

Re: [Xastir] Xastir remote TNC solution

2007-03-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
pt. Sure. Either create a script for starting xastir + the extra pieces you need, or put it all into an "alias" definition in your .profile file. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unkn

Re: [Xastir] Xastir remote TNC solution

2007-03-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
the country via the internet for Xastir testing. It makes me appear to have a direct RF presence in another state. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on compu

Re: [Xastir] Latest CVS

2007-03-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
t always see them on the platforms I compile on. To answer Kim: There have been no changes to the interface status icons for quite some time. I'd suspect a change in your Lesstif or Motif widget set. Have you done any updates to the OS lately? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://

Re: [Xastir] Directories/Ubuntu

2007-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
e later to get opinionated as to what's the best Linux. I've had a few years to do it myself (like nearly 15). ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsof

Re: [Xastir] Xastir do not recognize 'soundmodem'

2007-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
t going to > compiling? > Or, am I looking a right thing? You should also have these options: *) LSB-Xastir binary. This one doesn't have AX.25 networking built-in though. *) Set up the Soundmodem driver to appear as a KISS port instead of an AX.25 interface, then connect Xastir's &quo

Re: [Xastir] IGATEs

2007-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
uestion for Steve Dimse. Here are your raw packets: <http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=ke4qkt&start=48&length=24&time=1> It looks like you're using the 'I' overlay on top of the '&' symbol, correct? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons:

Re: [Xastir] directories

2007-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
Everyone can help keep the instructions up to date. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates.&quo

Re: [Xastir] directories

2007-03-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
t; started ubuntu, but I get an authentication failure. Is there a default > password I missed, or did something happen in playing around. Try "man sudo", "man sudoers", and "man visudo" for more information. You'll need to have root access to edit the /et

[Xastir] [SourceForge.net Release] xastir : xastir-development (fwd)

2007-03-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
Project: XASTIR (xastir) Package: xastir-development Date : 2007-03-05 07:41 Project "XASTIR" ('xastir') has released the new version of package 'xastir-development'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:

Re: [Xastir] Geotiff missing...???

2007-03-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
GDAL support in Xastir even then. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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 worl

Re: [Xastir] TNC

2007-02-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
its from where I sit now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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 D

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
be > hand-edited for each state). I think Derrick Brashear did something a little > more clever with it when he did the 2004 files to be placed on > xastir.tamu.edu. It wouldn't be a bad idea to add that script or Derrick's script(s) to CVS for future rounds of map-

Re: [Xastir] Fwd: Display Packet Dialog Eratic

2007-02-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tom ve7did wrote: > Only cure seemed to be rebooting computer to fix the ax25. And it fixed the > erratic nature of the Display dialog at the same time. Next time something like that happens, run "top" and see if something is using too much CPU or memory

[Xastir] [SourceForge.net Release] xastir : xastir-development (fwd)

2007-02-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
ject/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=463900> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=463900> -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax

Re: [Xastir] maps

2007-02-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
r them. If you don't have a transparent color set for a particular raster in the .geo then yes, it will obscure anything underneath it totally. Might I recommend the WMSRadar.geo to you? If everything is working right that one should be transparent except where there are weather bits. -

Re: [Xastir] Xastir hangs when changing form fields

2007-02-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
into Unix. Nowadays the fingers just know what to do with "vim", and I find it hard to even explain to someone how to edit without first seeing what my fingers know about it. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are b

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Gerry Creager wrote: > Darn it, work got in the way of answering quickly... Well, the Xastir alert network was working at full capacity. I even had my pith helmet on. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people

RE: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
p as we are now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: 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] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > You can test it manually this way: > > telnet localhost 1314 > > (SayText "Hello") > (SayText "This is kind of cool") > > Usually it's something like ESC-] to get back to command-mode for >

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
", and then "tar xvf filename.tar". It's a bit of a pain sometimes keeping it all straight. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
for you. If you don't want to download them again, you need to do something like this: cd /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties su tar xvf /path/filename.tgz (or else unzip filename.zip) exit (from root user) Your choice whether to blow away the .tgz or .zip files at that point.

Re: [Xastir] rattlesnakes

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
x' package, so `sudo apt-get install sox` will > take care of that... Or you can use vplay, aplay, etc. Whatever will accept the name of a sound file on the command line and play it. You can even put specific command-line switches you need in the box. File->Configure->Audio

Re: [Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've converted all of the Tiger 2006 line files into shapefile format. This > is about 6.7GB worth of files. Does anyone have the capability of or > interest in hosting these somewhere? If so, please email me. Oh Gerry........ -- Curt

Re: [Xastir] Xastir hangs when changing form fields

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
es one cannot use what one wishes. LSB-Xastir is one example where OpenMotif can't currently be used, but Lesstif can. There I have to make do with what I have and code around the bugs. That's why the D7/D700/HamHUD stuff in the Send Message dialog was disabled recently, but on

Re: [Xastir] Xastir hangs when changing form fields

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
e sorts of things. The code was changed so that if you compile with Lesstif you don't get the D7/D700/HamHUD changing widgets. Sorry, but that was to protect the app from crashing. Compile with Motif and you'll have that cool function again. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: ht

Re: [Xastir] Xastir hangs when changing form fields

2007-02-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
has known hangs if/when you try to remove/add widgets to an already-realized dialog. Motif has no problem doing this. I've seen other times when Lesstif would hang an application as well. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who

Re: [Xastir] SSID = 10 not showing trailing zero?

2007-02-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this list top post or bottom post? I'm sure someone will put me right! Bottom post or interspersed with the original, with non-pertinent stuff deleted. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto

Re: [Xastir] SSID = 10 not showing trailing zero?

2007-02-13 Thread Curt, WE7U
he latest code. As others have said. It certainly could be a bug that was fixed since 1.8.2 as that is quite old now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] SSID = 10 not showing trailing zero?

2007-02-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
ately those are the functions we use to save/restore the config file. You didn't mention _where_ you were seeing the incorrect callsign. Was it on the maps? If so, does File->Configure->Station still have the correct callsign? If so it's a fonts problem. -- Curt, WE7U. APR

Re: [Xastir] KMZ

2007-02-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
he vector portion, and only specific ones in that set. You might be able to use GDAL or OGR tools to convert it to something we can use though. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windo

Re: [Xastir] KMZ

2007-02-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Matt Werner wrote: > Is it possible to display a kmz file with xastir? Don't recall that format. Raster or vector? More than likely you'd be able to convert it into something Xastir can understand. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskim

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
me, and that adds to the confusion. Hi Tom, long time no hear... If we had a download script for Xastir that didn't download the entire country in one shot, it might be more useful to people. Perhaps someone should work on that. Disk space and download speed can be a limiting factor for people.

Re: [Xastir] Canada Toporama Maps

2007-02-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
est sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 07:20:11 ERROR 404: Not Found. At least it's connecting/failing very fast! I don't have to wait around long to see the messages. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are b

Re: [Xastir] Maps and ImageMagick

2007-02-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > I'll look into having the script check for both the ImageMagick and > the GraphicsMagick binaries before dying, and if neither found, > output a proper error message that tells you to install one or the > other packages. Done. Works wi

Re: [Xastir] Maps and ImageMagick

2007-02-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
aries that Xastir needs, to save time/trouble. I've done it both ways. It wouldn't have helped you w.r.t. the inf2geo.pl script though. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Wind

Re: [Xastir] Maps and ImageMagick

2007-02-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
about when I added in GraphicsMagick support. I need to have the script check for either/or, and report a reasonable error message if neither are found. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." --

[Xastir] MGRS/MGRS-2/MGRS-3

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
Anyone know about these? When I coded MGRS for Xastir I didn't know about MGRS-2 or MGRS-3. Perhaps the code needs to be updated to match the latest spec? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math.&q

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and TCP/IP over AX.25 coexistence?

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
memory image down. You can do this by sending it a SIGHUP command. See the FAQ. You can also start it up in a mode where it won't do any popups, not even when somebody messages to you, which would be a good startup option for a server. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.e

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
ere may be some places in Xastir where the hard-coded limits are less and you may run into problems. There's a long-standing bug in X11 that has to do with 16-bit numbers that we had to code around. We could probably do 32767x32767 eventually with some coding changes, but no more.

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and TCP/IP over AX.25 coexistence?

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
ls, and for non-144.39 frequencies it's just fine in the U.S. and Canda. I'd be wary of running connected mode packets or even unconnected mode TCP packets on the main APRS frequency. You're liable to get shot by the locals. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.esk

Re: [Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
20" CRT and run 20 virtual screens (5x4) under FVWM2 to keep all my workspaces separate. I see that I have things on 12 of them right now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Window

Re: [Xastir] Bluetooth connection to D700!

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
d was very simple --- I started wondering if I could use it with > Xastir to run APRS wirelessly with my D700. The answer to that question was > yes. Any of that going onto the Wiki??? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who

RE: [Xastir] Cygwin update

2007-02-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
Tom Russo reported that Xastir was much speedier under VMWare than under Cygwin. I expect the Virtual PC version might be as well. This is all assuming that you have the extra hard drive space and memory needed in order to go with either of these two. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons:

[Xastir] New Devel Snapshot

2007-02-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
The latest development snapshot is up. You can generally expect a new one near the 1st and the 15th of each month. The SuSE Linux and LSB binaries have been updated to this latest version as well. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A t

Re: [Xastir] Davis Weather unit install

2007-02-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
that people might have checked in already. Fine if you're the only one doing development, not so fine if there are 15 developers, some of which might be working on the same files as you are. To fix this little problem I added this alias to my shell startup file, which also ignores whitespace

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