[Dxspider-support] A couple of new command suggestions

[Dirk Koopman]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:54, Brendan Minish wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have a couple of suggestions for additional commands That I would like to 
> see in Dxspider at some stage.
> 
> 1/
> 	SH/FDX
> 	
> 	Show formatted DX this would work exactly like the current SH/DX command 
> except that the output format would be in the same form as normal spot data
> 
> I.e
> 
> DX de JA1FNA:    18074.0  TX4PG                                 1227Z
> 
> instead of the normal SH/DX format
> 
> 18074.0  TX4PG       28-Apr-2003 1227Z                        <JA1FNA>
> 
> 
> Reason for adding this command is that quite a few logging packages expect 
> data in the
> DX de format or treat spots in the DX de format differently
> 
> this command is currently available on AK1A Clusters

If it *is* available on AK1A clusters, it ain't on any that I have
access to... (eg GB7DXC).

But having said that, it is easy enough to do, when I have a some spare
time (not available, just now, as previously mentioned).

> 
> 
> 2/ 	SET/STRIP and UNSET/STRIP
> 
> 
> A console display formatting option to strip out all unnecessary spaces 
> from Spots etc.
> 
> 
> I.e
> 
> DX de JA1FNA:    18074.0  TX4PG                                 1227Z
> 
> becomes
> DX de JA1FNA: 18074.0 TX4PG 1227Z
> 
> and
> 18074.0  TX4PG       28-Apr-2003 1227Z                        <JA1FNA>
> Becomes
> 18074.0 TX4PG 28-Apr-2003 1227Z <JA1FNA>
> 
> Another possibility would be to replace the separator spaces with ^ instead 
> like
> DX de JA1FNA:^18074.0^TX4PG^1227Z
> and
> 18074.0^TX4PG^28-Apr-2003^1227Z^<JA1FNA>
> 
> Using a separator such as ^ may make parsing easier but is more likely to 
> confuse logging software.

This is also easy enough to do. But I can't see it being any use for
logging software. If you want to involve logging programs, why not just
parse PC protocol and have done with it. There is a case for having a
switch which causes 'user' output to appear in PC Protocol format for
clients. 

Dirk G1TLH
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