[Xastir-dev] Re: No display of Rino WPs (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Jim Tolbert wrote:

> the RINO.gpstrans file is attached.

Just had a chance this morning to look at the file.  Check this out,
your file is named RINO.gpstrans.save in this case:

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> tail RINO.gpstrans
W       086                              04-SEP-00 17:30 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0516270      -121.0522503
W       074                              08-JUL-95 16:28 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0545185      -121.0194469
W       N3EG3                            20-JUN-02 17:55 07/09/2004 14:08:13    46.1141682      -122.9384817
W       087                              05-SEP-00 16:09 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0355231      -121.0244144
W       N3EG9                            20-JUN-02 17:57 07/09/2004 14:08:13    46.1519337      -122.9803670
W       088                              05-SEP-00 17:57 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0334792      -121.0274667
W       N3JGI                            20-JUN-02 18:29 07/09/2004 14:08:13    48.0021644      -116.0118324
W       089                              06-SEP-00 17:15 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0392942      -121.0296501
W       N4NIV1                           20-JUN-02 17:46 07/09/2004 14:08:13    45.6791675      -122.5745005
W       129                              08-SEP-96 18:29 07/09/2004 14:08:13    47.0239466      -121.0090668
> cat RINO.gpstrans.save
Format: DDD  UTC Offset:   1.00 hrs  Datum[100]: WGS 84
W       APRS13                                           12/06/2007 11:32:37    45.7932227      -92.3827618
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See the difference?  Your file is missing a couple of columns
compared to the file I had sitting on this machine from way back.
Somewhere along the line the file format changed (probably due to a
change in GPSMan) and we (Xastir project) didn't find out about it.

Does anyone have time to fix this right now?  If not I'll try to
squeeze it in.  It should be a simple tweak to Xastir's parsing to
be able to handle either format of file.  I can send both example
files to anyone interested.

I remember Jim was in a hurry to prove this concept, something about
hunting for a grant and only getting the RINO units in hand for a
short while for testing.

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