[Xastir] Mac Map Remembrance Issue

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Chip G. wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:23, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
> > Xastir does keep backup copies of the xastir.cnf file.  You'll see
> > them in the same directory.  Each time you shut down Xastir or save
> > the configs it will renumber them and delete the oldest.
>
> This I knew. I suppose I could workout some sort of system for
> backing these up prior to doing an update just in case they get
> whacked in the process.

"make install" doesn't touch the ~/.xastir heirarchy.

Xastir itself will create everything needed from scratch when it
starts up though, if needed files aren't there.  In this last case,
Xastir had code added to it to translate old paths to new in one
spot, which evidently didn't work for your modified paths.


> Wish I could be more help. My code skills are extremely rusty.
> Perhaps as time allows I will work on them and help at some point in
> the future. What language(s) are used in Xastir? C?

Xastir proper uses generic C.  Scripts use Perl/sh/bash/python, but
mostly sh and Perl.

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