Re: [Xastir] Administrative Note: Wiki Passwords

2006-10-30 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
dare I ask what an unlazy admin would do? On 10/30/06, Chuck Byam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, being the lazy type (read too busy), the wiki now allows for password reminders and email notification of updates. You must register with a valid email for this to work properly. You can set emai

Re: [Xastir] Off topic - force gcc 3.2.2 on FC5

2006-10-21 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
./configure --help `configure' configures xastir 1.8.0 to adapt to many kinds of systems. Usage: ./configure [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]... Some influential environment variables: CC C compiler command CFLAGS C compiler flags LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L if you have libraries

Re: [Xastir] help !

2006-10-10 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
No idea what you want to know, but I did a search for APRS Glossary: http://info.aprs.net/wikka.php?wakka=Glossary Also not sure if theres a guide on the xastir wiki Ah! a work in progess. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/XASTIR_Manual I guess we're collectively working on the docs for anyth

Re: [Xastir] Editing the Serial Kiss TNC startup and stop

2006-10-08 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
I can't answer your main question, but I can answer the secondary question :) echo FF > /dev/ttyS0 or without a newline: echo -n FF > /dev/ttyS0 or maybe you mean charactor FF which might be escaped \xFF On 10/7/06, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a file that can be edited to co

Re: [Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-06 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
It's always hard to get enough information across that I make sense, but not so much that I spend a long time writing a large encyclopedic article. Heres the dbfawk that I used. dbfinfo="NATRDCLASS:RTNUMBER1:RTNUMBER2:RTNUMBER3:RTNUMBER4:RTENAME1EN:RTENAME2E N:EXITNBR:NBRLANES:PAVSTATUS:STRUCTID:

Re: [Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-06 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
I checked and the Geobase.ca NRN uses the ROADSEGID to associate which shape with what dbf entry. If theres no connection, xastir colors the roads seemingly randomly (due to misassociation of the dbf entries). So I'm down to 46.7mb for BC, but this is even before a dbfawk file is created, so depen

Fwd: [Xastir] RE: Tiger -> Shapefile Processing

2006-10-04 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
Whoops, forgot to go for reply to all. Again -- Forwarded message -- From: Kyle Kienapfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 4, 2006 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] RE: Tiger -> Shapefile Processing To: James Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hah we're coordinating how to

[Xastir] slimming down dbf files

2006-10-04 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
I didn't know that dbf was a standard xBase/dBase file: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase I just used a DBF Viewer 2000 from this site to cut a 300mb dbf file down to about 50. The odd thing about this program is it deals with the file directly, I delete a bunch of fields and its down to 11

Re: [Xastir] wikipedia on xastir...?

2006-09-29 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
With wikis theres a perceptual "anyone can edit it so I'll let them do it". Actually with any project only a small percentage of users contribute, but maybe HAMs are usually in that group of people that'll step up for CVS README -> wiki could have a bot do that. But I think we can be trusted to p

Re: [Xastir] Scripts

2006-09-25 Thread Kyle Kienapfel
The smarts for that to work would have to be written in several languages, but I guess Smarts.pl Smarts.sh Smarts.py etc to read the preferences file wouldn't be too hard, actually if the preferences is written in shell variable assignments, then only languages that deal with text better have to d