[Xastir] Re: Weather Alerts (James Ewen)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> So far I'm seeing a trend:  Three or four people have reported that
> weather alerts aren't working for them.


> You might take a run through your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file
> to see if any directory entries in there are corrupted or incorrect.
> One thing I can try here is to take one of my three users, rename
> the .xastir directory to something else, then start up Xastir and
> see if I can get weather alerts working with a default
> configuration.

Did that.  Weather alerts came up just fine for me on Linux,
starting with a default config file.  I just changed my callsign,
added an interface so it would connect to a server, and they showed
up.

Next question:  Is this problem showing up only on Cygwin/Xastir?

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