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

[John Spigel]

Dirk, New showdx external works great! I originally put it to use around 
2002 and has run since. Much has been improved by then. As it can be run 
from the command line prompt sysops should check it out to export spots.
73, John W1AN
dxc.dxusa.net7373

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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