[Xastir] FCC lookup

Steve Friis wm5z at comcast.net
Thu Jul 12 15:23:29 EDT 2007


Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
>>
>>>     Can it be something simple that I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> At this point it seems more likely that there's something wrong with
>> Xastir's parsing of some of the lines as it creates the index.  It's
>> possible that the original file may have some corrupt lines or they
>> changed the format on us.
>>
>> Like I said, my searches here on that callsign work fine, but it's
>> not the latest database.
>
>     Here's the results of the grep command (with a couple of line 
> feeds manually added to make it easier to read):
>
> earl at kd5xb-laptop:/usr/local/share/xastir/fcc$ sudo touch EN.dat
>
> earl at kd5xb-laptop:/usr/local/share/xastir/fcc$ grep -i w5roy EN.dat
>
> EN|1060361|||W5ROY|L|L00138867|Creiglow, Roy A|Roy|A|Creiglow|||||208 
> Merrill Dr                                      
> |Clovis|NM|88101|||000|0003121316|I|||
>
> EN|2433104|||WW5ROY|L|L00426133|Black, Roy D|Roy|D|Black|||||701 E 4th 
> St|Mount                                     
> Pleasant|TX|75455|||000|0005808308|I|||
>
> earl at kd5xb-laptop:/usr/local/share/xastir/fcc$
>
>     Do you see anything "strange" in it?
>
>     As I mentioned earlier, some callsigns work, and some don't, and I 
> can't find any pattern to it.  At least not yet.
>
>     Earl
Earl,

Maybe you could try to re-download the file. I just tried the new 
database file and it shows Roy in Clovis just fine.

Steve/WM5Z




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