[Xastir] Filter Parameter for Internet Server

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

What port are you connecting to?

gerry

Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
> Thanks for the response Gerry.
> 
> I added my "callpass" and that seems like it will work.
> Takes a bit of time before they pop up though, but so far so good.
> 
> As for the filter, that did not work. I tried other stuff taken from http://www.aprs-is.net/javAPRSSrvr/javaprsfilter.htm and nothing seem to work at all.
> 
> Also I still haven't been able to get a map to display.
> 
> I downloaded world.tar.bz2 from http://aprsworld.net/gisdata/world/ and installed it into the /usr/local/share/xastir/map directory.
> 
> Anything else I need to do?
> 
> I've also tried a xpm map with a geo file and that doesn't seem to work either for me.
> 
> Between you and me (and this list) there seems to be a decent learning curve here to get this up and running.
> And I consider myslef to be quite knowledgable with most software packages and *nix machines.
> I've only been running *nix machines at home for the past 20 years or so now!  ;-)
> 
> I would imagine the average person would have surely given up by now.
> 
> This is the debug info I get at startup:
> 
> Built-in map types:
>       gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
>        map   APRSdos Maps
>        map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
>        pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
> 
> Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
>        geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
>        xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> SayText: Couldn't open socket to Festival
> Warning:
>     Name: create_appshell text_output2
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\260' not supported in font.  Discarded.
> 
> The "Character '\260' not supported in font" message repeats for a long time with different chars.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 
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> On 28/04/2004 at 10:17 AM Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
> 
>>Check in the distribution for 'callpass' and run that with your callsign
>>as input to get a registration key.  The history is too sad to go into
>>here.
>>
>>For mo' better filter info, go to one of the 4 core servers, or the
>>multiple Tier 2 servers and look at their link for filter parameters.
>>"V*" means, I'm assuming, that you want only calls starting in 'V'
>>
>>Based on the docs at http://www.aprs-is.net/javAPRSSrvr/javaprsfilter.htm
>>try 'b/v*' and see if it doesn't work better.
>>
> 
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