[Xastir] HSP/AUX/Timings etc.

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Stephen West-Fisher wrote:

> Not enough horsepower for anything, and although this is my mobile
> machine, since Sunday it's been sitting here on my desk. So it's not
> doing any map stuff after it starts up. No tracking, no Tiger, not even
> a network adapter installed. I am using the dosARPS maps.
>
> I just had another a few minutes ago and the last string was GPS.
>
> Could be that the GPS stuff could be doing something.

Yes.  It's likely that you're getting some strings in there that are
causing Xastir to choke later on it, perhaps with a buffer overflow.
We used to have killer packet problems like this quite a bit, and as
buffer overflow problems got fixed, most of them went away.

Are you still using HSP mode while it's sitting there?  HSP mode
will cause strings to get hacked up both on the GPS port and the TNC
port.

It'd be good to see what's in the logs before you start up Xastir
again.  I wouldn't leave logging on permanently though unless you
set up cron's to trim them back.

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