[Dxspider-support] Connect Scripts falling over in 1.42

[Dirk Koopman]

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Breaking the rule of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, we did an upgrade 
> from 1.39 to 1.42 last night. Now the connect script to ON0DXK does not 
> work correctly. The script appears to connect OK, but all the lines seem to 
> get thrown away - sample line from /debug.... attached.
> 
> 965145528^DUFF Line from UN.KNOWN: ION0DXK|PC18^ 4 nodes, 18 local / 32 
> total users  Max users 516  Uptime 0 02:27^5449^
> 
> Also the debug log is now full of 'Use of unitialised variable type error 
> messages' and filling at about 1 Mb / hour...........
> 
> Can anyone quickly spread some light on what we've screwed up to save hours 
> of fruitless playing about.
> 

This is a known problem which was fixed by:-

a) in DXChannel.pm:

# take a standard input message and decode it into its standard parts
sub decode_input
{
  my $dxchan = shift;
  my $data = shift;
  my ($sort, $call, $line) = $data =~ /^([A-Z])([A-Z1-9\-]{3,9})\|(.*)$/;   
                                                            
change the 1-9 to 0-9.  This was in previous emails.

b) remember to recompile the C client.

PS Sorry been away, will be away a lot again next week.

Dirk
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