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

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Gotcha.  Makes sense.

One more quick question... does the "reset" knock all the connections off
the node, but leave the node's "uptime" continuous?

Mike, WA9PIE

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> 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> 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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