[Xastir] DBFAWK - Doin' it wrong?

[Chip Griffin]

So I got it working. It took a bit of messing around. Eventually what I did was to move every dbfawk file except for my custom ones from the default directory to a sub-directory I named “hold”. Then I was able to get what I wanted. Sometime if I’m bored I may move them back one at a time until I find which ones are ‘interfering’ with mine. Clearly I’d prefer to have any compatible one in place. I also renamed mine so they began with an ‘a’ and showed up at the head of the list.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:54, Chip Griffin <n1mie at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a great suggestion. I’ll give this a shot today while I’m messing around.
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2020, at 11:37, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>> 
>> If there is a per-file dbfawk that matches the file's name (e.g. if 
>> you've got foo.dbf and foo.dbfawk exists, it is used).  Otherwise, the first
>> one that matches the signature is used.
>> 
>> However, the "first one that matches" is the first one in a linked list of
>> pre-scanned dbf signatures, which is constructed by repeatedly making
>> "readdir" calls on the config directory and scanning the files it finds.  
>> That probably means that the file that comes first lexicographically.



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    Chip