[Xastir] No DBFAWK signature for ...

[Steve Huston]

On 9/6/11 11:50 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> No DBFAWK signature for z_04au11.shp!  Using default.
>> No DBFAWK signature for mz07jl11.shp!  Using default.
> Weather alerts weren't going out for a few days last week, so that might
> have coincided with what you saw.

Hm.. well, I've been running these files since the beginning of August,
and was seeing weather alerts and such before, but these errors (tons of
them, but all those two files) were new.  I also occasionally see "Error
in computing fill/hole ring" but that's usually one line every so often,
this series tends to delay startup considerably.

> Other possibilities:
> *) Our dbfawk files in CVS may not match the current NWS files.

Quite possible, see below.

> *) You might not be running the latest Xastir, therefore don't have
> dbfawk files that match the current NWS files.

>stupidsmack< Yeah, that would have been good to include.  I'm running
2.0.0.  Strangely, I compiled it on August 2nd, but the Help->About says
October 25th; looks like compiledate.c didn't get updated when I build it.

> *) The NWS has changed their files again and we haven't updated our
> get-NWSdata" script to correspond.  This doesn't seem to match the error
> message, but could also be happening.

This is definitely the case, though as you say the error doesn't match.
 When I ran the script, I did have to edit it to have it grab the
correct files as many were changed and some that were requested no
longer existed.  I was unaware that the specific files have ties to
something internal to the program though.

> *) You haven't run that script (as root) to snag the latest NWS
> Shapefiles.  Again, doesn't seem to match the error message but might be
> worth doing anyway.

Looking back through my history, I did edit the get-NWSdata script to
get the latest files available, and I deleted some ancient stuff I had
laying around; but again, these all worked until this morning.  And I
hate this kind of issue.. especially since people who usually tell me "I
didn't change anything" come back two days later with what they changed,
so I hate being the one to say I didn't change anything :>

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