[Xastir] Canadian Topo Maps

Gerry Creager gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Wed Jun 25 08:19:32 EDT 2008


Mac is BSD unix under the hood with a cool gui.

It's saying there's no images directory under your working directory. 
I'll try to look into this later today or tonight but I'm getting back 
to a recalcitrant hpc cluster right now.

gerry

Nick wrote:
> I tried that and this is what I got:
> 
> perl /Applications/xastir/scripts/toporama50k.pl
> find: ./images: No such file or directory
> find: ./images: No such file or directory
> Writing .geo files
> 
> Done.
> Nicks-Laptop:maps snobrdnick$
> 
> 
> BTW, I am on a Mac
> 
> Gerry Creager wrote:
>> Try 'perl toporama50k.pl'.  That's a perl script.  And, linux doesn't 
>> employ a 'run' command.  However, in looking at a local copy of the 
>> script here, you can also try './toporama50k.pl' (without the "'" of 
>> course), and it should run.
>>
>> We need to change the script run istructions a little bit to 
>> accommodate the folks unfamiliar with Linux/Unix.  I see that we are 
>> assuming a few things we shouldn't in the explanation.
>>
>> gerry
>>
>> Nick wrote:
>>> I located the map dir and the toporama.pl files, I read through the 
>>> file and looked at the map files on Steve's website.  In terminal I 
>>> changed the directory, etc.....what is the proper command to 'Run' 
>>> the scripts?  I tried 'run 
>>> /Applications/xastir/scripts/toporama50k.pl' but only got a -bash: 
>>> run: command not found
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> KC7RGL
>>>
>>> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Nick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>>    How do I properly execute this command to download the Canada 
>>>>> Topo Maps?
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> Look at the script.  They're in xastir/scripts/ before install.
>>>> Usually in the comments at the top of each script are instructions
>>>> for running them.
>>>>
>>>> After install they're in /usr/local/lib/xastir/, but that might be a
>>>> different place on a Mac.
>>>>
>>>>     toporama250k.pl
>>>>     toporama50k.pl
>>>>
>>>> These require Perl5 or better to be installed/working on the box
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>>   
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