[Xastir] uivew maps

James Jolin jjolin at itol.com
Wed Mar 31 15:57:42 EST 2004


Curt, WE7U wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, James Jolin wrote:
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>>I hate to ask, but I don't know how to run the above script.  Scripts
>>are something I haven't gotten into yet.
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>You typically on Unix/Linux don't have the current directory in your
>path (and it's a bad idea to add it), so you need to type the path
>and then the name of the script.
>
>In this case, the path is '.' if you're in the same directory as the
>script, so you type:
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>    ./inf2geo.pl
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>To have it work on a file, you type:
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>    ./inf2geo.pl filename
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>It will create "filename.geo" if everything goes well.  You'll need
>to make sure that the GIF or JPG file has the correct case as called
>out in the .INF file as well.  Windows ignores case, but it's
>important in Unix/Linux.  You also need a working copy of
>ImageMagick on your system for this to work.
>
>--
>Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
>Arlington, WA, USA		http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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>
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and I suppose I should also add the path to filename--correct?
Jim wa9arb





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