[Xastir] Problem under debian "Etch"

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William McKeehan wrote:

> Here's the out put from a
>   egrep "DIR|usr|local" ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf
> (note I added the . before xastir; I assume that was a typo in your message):

Yes.  I was actually "cd'ed" to ~/.xastir/config when I ran the
command, added the path manually to my e-mail and got it wrong.


> Nothing jumps out at me as being incorrect...am I overlooking something?

What's your LANG variable set to?

    echo $LANG

It should be either "en_US" or "C" for Xastir.

    export LANG=en_US; xastir -geometry -0-0 &

If LANG is set to something else, it messes up the
sprintf/fprintf/printf/scanf/sscanf/fscanf functions in libc.  We
use those functions to read/write files in Xastir, including the
config files.

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