[Xastir] Group Messages

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Frank Tomesch wrote:

> Can anyone tell me whether 'Group Messaging' works? and/or the format of
> the '.xastir/config/groups' file.

Don't know.  This is a little-used feature in Xastir.

Found "groups" in xa_config.c.  It using "GROUP_DATA_FILE" as the
label in the config file, and "group_data_file" as the local
variable inside Xastir that it keeps the filename/path in.

messages.c uses "group_data_file" and then calls group_build_list()

messages.c:group_build_list() reads from the file and puts the data
into "group_data_list".

I see we manually stuff a few things in first before reading from
the file:

  // Make sure we always listen for ourself, XASTIR, & our Version
  // groups
    xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[0],10,"%s",my_callsign);
    xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[10],10,"XASTIR");
    xastir_snprintf(&group_data_list[20],10,"%s",XASTIR_TOCALL);
    group_data_count = 3;

So it looks like each field has 10 characters and they're in one big
string.

A quick glance at the while loop which reads it in makes me think
that each group name is on a separate line with a linefeed (or
alternately linefeed & carriage return) at the end of each line.
Actually it looks like they expect up to 9 characters and then a
linefeed, which is enough for a six-character callsign, a dash, and
a 2-character SSID.

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