[Xastir] Linking to Maps on SD

[Dick C. Reichenbach]

How about this idea.

1. Load your normal maps on your EEE pc and start Xastir.  Exit Xastir 
and back up the map_index.sys file.
2. Load the second hard drive, create the link, restart Xastir and allow 
to reindex.  Quit Xastir again.
3. compare the existing map_index.sys to the backup and create a text 
file on the secondary hard disk containing the entries for only the map 
files on that drive.
4. Whenever mounting the secondary hard drive simply create a script to 
backup the existing index file and then append the text file to the 
map_index.sys file before starting xastir.
It might be possible to create an automount that does step 4 automaticly.


I had an idea several years ago similar to this, so that common options 
for Xastir could be selected from a graphical startup menu and then 
"patched" back into the config file before the desktop icon is clicked.  
Similar to the way the graphical linux kernal configure program works.

Another use would be preconfiguring.  Simply typing in your callsign 
would enable a script to search the callsign database and retrive your 
address, your address could then be converted into Coordinates and 
"preloaded" into the xastir.cnf file on system startup.  Saving the new 
user the hassle of finding his home location on a map.  I had a nice 
stable script for doing this, but I lost interest several years ago and 
never completed it.

Dick R.



Kevin Ratcliff wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Shouldn't be any problem at all.  I've used symbolic links to map
>> files for other purposes.
>>     
>
> I have done this with a removable secondary hard drive and it worked
> fine. The only issue I ran into was that I once started Xastir without
> the secondary drive attached. Xastir didn't crash or anything bad like
> that, but the next time I started it with the secondary drive attached
> I had to re-index all 150GB of maps!
>
> Kevin
> KB9MQU
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