[Xastir-Dev] Weather Alerts are broken

Curt Mills hacker at tc.fluke.com
Fri Sep 19 12:56:44 EDT 2003


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Curt Mills wrote:

> I just tried running Xastir with/without the --dbfawk configure
> switch just to make sure it wasn't that:  Latest Xastir isn't
> drawing weather alerts at all in either mode.
>
> Anyone know how/when they got broken?  We need to fix these ASAP, as
> the hurricanes and fall weather are upon us.

I just opened up a file I had with NWS Warnings in it, changed the
expire time to the 21st, and brought it in.  Alerts showed up.

Have the format for alerts changed on us?  That might explain why
we're not seeing them anymore.

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