I have used the capability occasionally. The file is looking for a group name with a possible wildcard (*) on each line.
For example, my file looks like this: ETNAPRS SKYMRX SKYWRN SPCL SKY* BLN* NWS* MRX* CQ ALL QST As such, a message sent to ETNAPRS will pop-up on my display. I host a Sunday night APRS Net locally and we tried to use this at one point, but found that the way UI-View handles the messages is odd - I do not recall the details - as a result, we dropped the use of it (too many UI-View users in the area). -- William McKeehan KI4HDU http://mckeehan.homeip.net On Tue, February 12, 2008 3:34 pm, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Frank Tomesch wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me whether 'Group Messaging' works? and/or the format of >> the '.xastir/config/groups' file. > > Don't know. This is a little-used feature in Xastir. > > Found "groups" in xa_config.c. It using "GROUP_DATA_FILE" as the > label in the config file, and "group_data_file" as the local > variable inside Xastir that it keeps the filename/path in. > > messages.c uses "group_data_file" and then calls group_build_list() > > messages.c:group_build_list() reads from the file and puts the data > into "group_data_list". > > I see we manually stuff a few things in first before reading from > the file: > > // Make sure we always listen for ourself, XASTIR, & our Version > // groups > xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[0],10,"%s",my_callsign); > xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[10],10,"XASTIR"); > xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[20],10,"%s",XASTIR_TOCALL); > group_data_count = 3; > > So it looks like each field has 10 characters and they're in one big > string. > > 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 to 9 characters and then a > linefeed, which is enough for a six-character callsign, a dash, and > a 2-character SSID. > > -- > Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> > "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! > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
