Hi Fabian, tnx for finding this... Next week is tlf-maintenance week, so I will fix it.
73, Rein PA0R On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:12 +0100, Fabian Kurz wrote: > Hi Rein, > > Rolf/OH6KXL and me noticed a bug in tlf-0.9.27 yesterday: in the > latest version, DXCC/Zones etc of a callsign are not properly > regognized anymore. I traced it back to readctydata.c, which, since > the last version 0.9.27 of Dec 17th (in 0.9.26 of Dec 16th it's still > OK!) is broken. In the main loop where the lines from cty.dat are > read, there is suddenly a: if (j<4) continue; inserted which makes > absolutely no sense here, because j is set to 0 just before that and j > is not modified; resulting in all arrays for zones etc not to be > filled. > After removing these two lines, the regonition of DXCCs etc works > again (we noticed this bug because in WPX mode, all QSOs were scored > with 1 point only), and WPX scoring is correct again. > > I am not exactly sure why this if(<4).. was inserted, looks to me like > you started to make some more changes but forgot to continue halfway > through? Happens to me all the time :-) > > Attached is the mail which OH6KXL sent to the tlf-devel reflector, but > it didn't make it through, at least it doesn't show up on the list > archive at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tlf-devel/2006-03/. > I tried to subscribe to tlf-devel myself via the web-interface, no > luck. Anything broken there? > > 73 and thanks for TLF, I am a happy user for a long time already! > > Fabian, DJ1YFK > > > ----- Forwarded message from Rolf Moberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Rolf Moberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) > To: tlf-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WPX contest rules, bug found > > Hello! > > My earlier posting was unclear. I knew there are pre programmed contest > rules for WPX. That's why I tried to write them to rules. However it > didn't work. Scoring was faulty. > > We discussed about the problem in #elecraft in irc.radiochat.org > network. TLF 0.9.27 does not determine zone and continent from CALL=OH6KXL. > > DJ1YFK found a "bug" from source code. His simple correction is in the > following. I don't know is it a some sort of kludge or not. But in the > initial tests it helped. Saturday and sunday will tell more during the > contest. I'm not a coder but simply end user. My last coding was done in > 1995 in Turbo Pascal with poorest acceptable degree :) > > Remove two lines from readctydata.c > > if (j < 4) > continue; > > Thanks to DJ1YFK. > > > Rolf > oh6kxl > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ Tlf-devel mailing list Tlf-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tlf-devel
