[Dxspider-support] External Command showdx not working. Another way to do?

[John Spigel]

Thanks Dirk. I'll fetch the update and put it to good use. Now need to 
put some wood on the fire. May go down to (-)20C tonight.
73, John W1AN

On 03-Feb-23 23:56, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Try it now.
>
> And no, it was not a simple "tweak", especially as I enhanced it a bit.
>
> showdx -h
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 03/02/2023 02:52, John Spigel via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> Sysops,
>> Im trying to get the external showdx command to work, but I get an 
>> error message from Prefix.PM
>>
>> (*) Spot::init - reading in 2 days of spots into cache
>> Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at 
>> /spider/perl/Prefix.pm line 216
>> , <GEN1> line 1.
>>
>> This did work on a vintage node. I directed the output to text files 
>> with periodic crontab updates. I suspect that the innumerable changes 
>> in Prefix.pm to accommodate the crazy callsigns causes this blip. Is 
>> there a ready way to do this? Or a simple tweak in the code to assign 
>> a default value?
>>
>> Used to work like below. I do have really the old node running just 
>> to collect these spots and in a hurry to pull the plug. Is there a 
>> new, ready to go, way to do this?
>>
>> sysop at DxSpider:~/spider/perl$ ./showdx on 40m
>>   7049.1  YO3FJM       3-Feb-2023 0223Z FT4                          
>> <K4WMS>
>>   7129.0  W1AW/5       3-Feb-2023 0221Z  VOTA / 
>> Texas                  <N0TR>
>>   7074.6  IN3EJX       3-Feb-2023 0220Z                               
>> <KF0GE>
>>   7047.5  VE3KAE       3-Feb-2023 0219Z  73 tks                       
>> <EA5UB>
>>   7047.5  KN4QHZ       3-Feb-2023 0218Z  73 tks                       
>> <EA5UB>
>>   7190.0  W1AW/4       3-Feb-2023 0218Z  LSB KP13eh -> EM83          
>> <OH6BQH>
>>   7047.5  W4CPO        3-Feb-2023 0217Z  73 tks                       
>> <EA5UB>
>>   7047.5  NS2X         3-Feb-2023 0215Z  73 tks                       
>> <EA5UB>
>>   7047.5  WB9WOZ       3-Feb-2023 0215Z  73 tks                       
>> <EA5UB>
>>   7074.8  LX2KD        3-Feb-2023 
>> 0215Z                                <N8IK>
>>
>> 73, John W1AN
>>
>>
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