[Dxspider-support] client and callsigns w/zeros

[Ian J Maude]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hi Dirk et al,
> 
> Here, Spider version 1.42 is not properly handling clients if the callsign
> contains a "0". For example - none of these work: K0AN, W0AN, G0TLH. But
> if the "0" is replaced with anything in the range [1-9], then no problem.
> 
> The problem exists with both the C client and the old perl client.
> Specifically, the result of either of these commands:
> 	/spider/src/client k0an
> 	/spider/perl/client.pl k0an
> 
> is that the client process appears to "hang" and a console message like
> this is generated:
> 
> DUFF Line from UN.KNOWN: AK0AN|local 
> 
> Steve Franke, K9AN
Hi Steve,
This is a known problem.  As you can imagine, it hit me very early! ;-)
The fix is simple.  Almost at the end of /spider/perl/DXChannel.pm there is a
line..

       my ($sort, $call, $line) = $data =~ /^([A-Z])([A-Z1-9\-]{3,9})\|(.*)$/;

change this to read....

       my ($sort, $call, $line) = $data =~ /^([A-Z])([A-Z0-9\-]{3,9})\|(.*)$/;

this will solve the problem.

Dirk has already admitted to using a strange substance whilst writing this
section of code ;-))))))

Cheers
Ian

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 Ian Maude G0VGS Morecambe Lancs UK | ianmaude at btinternet.com
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