[Xastir] Error Questions

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Chip Griffin wrote:

> I sometimes launch Xastir from a terminal window, it's one way to
> keep the messages it returns. Sometimes those messages are very
> interesting, sometimes just make you scratch your head. I had a bunch
> of odd ones when I shutdown Xastir today.
>
> Some looked like this:
> > extract_multipoints: invaldi value in (filtered) "Center of
> > MaxConcern }a0ba#c a a k/a#{7LLAAI": 19,-
> > 171
>
> Some looked like this:
> > Fri Jan 11 04:28:22 EST 2008:
> > 	Interface Error!  Error opening interface 0 Hard Fail
>
> The former I'm assuming had to do with badly formatted data coming
> through the internet server.

Yes, but a warning, not an error.


 The latter I'm assuming had to do with
> an error on the first interface (0) which is the internet connection.

Most likely.


> I also had before and have again on relaunch errors which look like
> this:
> > *** Reading WX Alert Log Files
> > sscanf parsed 2 values in alert.c (3-7 ok) N1TAI->NWS_ADVIS: HEAVY
> > FOG, VIS LESS THAN 400 FEET cROMW
> > ELL, ct  06416
> > sscanf parsed 2/3 values in alert.c
> ...[repeated multiple times, five in all then this]
> > *** Done with WX Alert log files
>
> When I look in wx_alert.log and grep for N1TAI I see five lines that
> look like this:
> > N1TAI>APRS::NWS_ADVIS:HEAVY FOG, VIS LESS THAN 400 FEET cROMWELL,
> > ct  06416{08
>
> I manually deleted the five lines (and the '#' lines immediately
> above) to hopefully eliminate the errors.

Again a poorly formatted weather alert, so the Xastir parsing
routines are letting us know.  It won't affect the run-time of
Xastir.

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