[Dxspider-support] USDB

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

Ian Maude wrote:
> But no info on how to install it?
> 

 From near the bottom of the download page:

US State and City Database

Some people like to filter on or generally just "know" about which US 
State or City a callsign is in. The latest software will now (as of the 
CVS version or 1.51) allow this. There are also some commands to get 
this information displayed on a DX Announcement.

In order to use this information then you must download usdbraw.gz to a 
temporary place (I would suggest /tmp or c:\tmp).

After downloading (it is over 4Mb in length) you must:

    1. run /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl /tmp/usdbraw.gz or wherever you 
have downloaded it to.
    2. in a console window do: load/usdb

On Linux you will either need to load Compress::Zlib from CPAN or you 
will need to unzip the usdbraw.gz file before running the program.

 From time to time a new usdbraw.gz file will be uploaded. You need to 
run the above procedure to update the running system. create_usdb.pl 
also (confusingly) updates the database.


Dirk