[Xastir] Just wondering

[Jason Hitesman]

Curt Mills wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Jason Hitesman wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK, my Xastir setup has been too stable the past few days so I'm getting
>>the urge to tinker again :D
> 
> Hmmm... Users are unhappy if it's unstable.  Users are unhappy if
> it's too stable...

Not saying I'm not happy....I just have this disease that makes me 
fiddle with things when they work too well ;)

>>Are there any temp files Xastir creates I could try to parse out?  Or is
>>there an existing app that could listen in on the server port and create
>>this kind of info?
>  
> Xastir doesn't really create any temp tables.  It's all kept in
> memory.  The info is usually kept in linked lists of some type,
> sometimes in hash tables or sometimes just hash tables that are
> shortcuts into the linked lists.
> 
> Regarding the last question, you could create things in Perl5 that
> would give you the information you're after, and could write HTML or
> TEXT files as output for perusing with a web browser.  I've done
> rather a lot of these myself.

I've actually been running some Perl pseudo-code though my head 
already...just not sure how to do some things very efficiently.  Like 
telling if a packet was heard directly or though a digi.  Seemed like 
the functionaliy to detect that was already in place so why re-invent 
the wheel.

Guess I'll have to start paying attention to the output of the server 
code more closely ;)

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Jason Hitesman
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