[Dxspider-support] Does updating DXSpider over-write pre-existing CTY files?

[Dirk Koopman]

It depends on how old the git repository is when you do the update. If 
you update at or near a change to the repository then, generally, it 
will have the latest version of cty.dat. On the other hand if you update 
cty religiously, but git pull only occasionally, then there will be a 
reset to a previous version. But then, if you are updating cty 
religiously, that will right itself fairly soon.

Bear in mind that I use cty data for country and maybe state information 
for those stations on the cluster that haven't set their lat/long. This 
is used for things like beam heading etc, not QSL, contesting or other 
more detailed uses - so I don't believe that an absolutely up to date 
cty is going to be critical. Also, while cty has some specific info on 
individual callsigns of interest, these are pruned regularly and so it 
may be that the historical record contained in the spots can't be 
matched up with the current cty data. Indeed there are countries and/or 
in my spot records going back  to 1997 that don't exist any more.

Dirk

On 12/08/16 19:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> Thanks, Dirk.  Then let me ask you the next logical question...
>
> Is it ever possible then that the version of CTY that's in the latest 
> build could back-rev a newer version that's already installed?
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk 
> <mailto:djk at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Yes.
>
>     Dirk
>
>
>     On 12/08/16 15:50, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>>     When you run these commands:
>>
>>     git reset --hard
>>     git pull
>>
>>     Does the resulting update overwrite the pre-existing CTY files?
>>
>>     Mike, WA9PIE
>>
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