[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

[Jim Tolbert]

Hi, Curt....

Thank you very much for your help!

I am just getting a slightly modified  version of Carl's working am 
happily generating snapshots.

When I run Carl's' script, I get

kill: 10:  Illegal Option -S

But it seems to work.

I think I will wait until this weekend demo is over and then I will 
update with the CVS.  I don't want to screw it up now.

Thanks again ................. jt

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, riverridge at centurytel.net wrote:
>
>> Thankyou everyone!  I will give it a shot tomorrow.
>
> You're probably well on your way to implementing Carl's solution
> (which should work great BTW), but I'll give you another option
> anyway:
>
> Xastir CVS now contains "scripts/slideshow.pl", a Perl script which
> copies the snapshots to ~/.xastir/tmp/slideshow, renaming them in
> numerical order.
>
> The filename contains the Unix Epoch time.  Later one could create a
> script to display the files at the proper rate relative to each
> other by the use of those timestamps, even if you changed the
> snapshot rate in Xastir while collecting the snapshots.
>
> Run "xastir/scripts/slideshow.pl" in a separate xterm window while
> running Xastir/creating snapshots.  This script does not require
> CRON, and it sleeps for 30 seconds between checks so it uses little
> CPU.
>
> The script is dependent on Perl and is Linux/Unix specific.
>