[Xastir] Questions

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Bill Vodall wrote:

> I'm adding the FCC and RAC databases to the Cygwin/Xastir CD.  I have
> the RAC info now and it works great.  Question is, is there some way to query
> the database for stations that haven't been heard?   A general lookup feature?

Nope, but it's on the feature request list.  Feel free to add it and
send me a patch.  ;-)

It wouldn't be hard to implement.  Just copy one of the other
dialogs, change the names, link it into the menus, and create a
callback to it.


> Is there any way, in Xastir, to filter out the CWxxxx prefix stations?

Nope.  Not yet.  I don't think that's on the feature request list
either.  You can certainly take out all of the weather stations
and/or weather objects.  That'll do it too.


> When shutting down X/Cygwin I "exit" out of the xterm window and right-click
> to close the X process in the system tray.   Is there a better or cleaner way to
> shut down?   Is there a "command" to enter in the xterm to shut down X and the xterm?

You shouldn't need to exit from the xterm window, although exiting
from Xastir would be a good idea first.  You should just be able to
kill the X11-server and that should kill all applications using it.
See if it works.  Remember that it doesn't give the applications
notification that they should clean up first, so if you're running
apps that are more complicated and actually doing something with
files at the time, I wouldn't recommend shutting down this way.

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