[Xastir-Dev] Paths, and saving tracklogs

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote:

> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you have a /usr/local/xastir/maps/GPS directory and can a normal
> > user write to it?
> >
> >     mkdir /usr/local/xastir/maps/GPS
> >     chmod 777 /usr/local/xastir/maps/GPS
> >
> > See if that's it and let me know.
>
> Indeed that was the problem.
>
> But /usr/local/xastir/* shouldn't be where user stuff is stored, data
> owned by the user should be in .xastir, IMHO.

Agreed, but for the sake of expediency, that's where they currently
go.  Something to change for the future, but then Map Chooser would
need to look in more than one heirarchy for maps.


> (We don't look for maps there, hmm. Maybe a .xastir/maps/ directory for
> personal maps? I don't want to try to code that. :-P )

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