[Xastir] Lost tiger maps

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:29:04PM -0700, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > I think the problem was a timeout in downloading.  I set the timeout to
> > 120 sec. (the maximum) and it seems to work well.
> 
> You'll get a message in the starting Xterm if "wget" times out.

OK, I didn't use an Xterm, but have created a menu item for Xastir.
> 
> Would it be better to have as a popup message in this case?  I
> imagine it'd be quite annoying to track someone and have TigerMap
> time out consistently if it were a popup.
> 

After the commotion over the message popup, that probably isn't a good
idea.  

I usually get faster downloads (640K DSL), but sometimes the network
isn't too cooperative.

73, Bob N7XY