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

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

What's the difference in file storage needed for either?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:

>  I tried it here as well, and it says it loaded in without error.   I only
> saw the zip version of the file, so extracted it from that, so assume that
> was the correct approach.
>
> 73's..
>
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> Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dxspider-support [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org]
> > On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 1:58 PM
> > To: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Does updating DXSpider over-write pre-
> > existing CTY files?
> >
> > It appears to. I could start distributing that rather than the smaller
> one.
> >
> > Dirk G1TLH
> >
> > On 16/08/16 17:39, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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.
> > > Has anyone tried using the "big" cty.dat with DX Spider?
> > >
> > >      http://www.country-files.com/big-cty/
> > >
> > > This might help with those expired callsigns.  The callsign data goes
> > > back to 2000, though my original intent was to only be current for the
> > > last 10 years, to try to keep the size of the file manageable.
> > >
> >
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