[Xastir] Canadian Topo Maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, 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.

I found that one script would run, the other wouldn't.  The 250k
script had DOS line-ends throughout, which caused the Perl
interpreter not to run.  I fixed it in CVS.


> 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.

I added more explicit instructions to both scripts, but there's only
so much Unix edumacation one should do in script comments.

Nick:  If you're still having trouble, e-mail or give me a call.

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