[Xastir] playing tracks

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, N1OFZ wrote:

> Can someone point me in the right direction on this one, I can't figure
> out how to replay a saved trail.  I can fetch a trail from findu and I
> can save a trail but I can't figure out how to play it back.  I looked
> through the docs and saw the comment that Open Log File doesn't do it.
> I tried it anyway and it didn't work.  This is probably a dumb question
> but I'm stuck.

It's not a dumb question.  There is no way to suck in a saved trail
which was saved via the Save Track option (which by the way shows
that sometimes we call it a Trail, sometimes a Track).

Actually, let me refine that a bit.  If you have Shapelib installed
and hit the Save Track button, Xastir will create a Shapefile map
out of the track.  If you've created a symlink from the system map
directory down to your local user's "~/.xastir/tracklogs/"
directory, or copy the three files up to the system maps directory,
you can then look at the track as a map.

Another way is to grep through your log file for the callsign and
put that to a new file, then suck that into using the File->Open Log
File menu option.

Sorry, but nobody ever wrote the "Restore Track" function for
Xastir.  Wasn't much interest I guess.


> If Xastir does not support playing saved trails, does anyone have a
> workaround?  I was thinking that I can add findu.com to the local dns
> pointing it to 127.0.0.1 and then write a cgi that emulates fundu.com's
> trail feed by pulling the data from a saved track file.  I looked
> through the source and it looks like it would be pretty easy to do.
> Anyone have a better idea?

Yea:

    cd .xastir/logs
    grep we7u-12 tnc.log > we7u-12.log

In Xastir:  File->Open Log File
            Enter "we7u-12.log"

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