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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi John,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If I understand correctly, what you are looking for is something like this from console:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>save /tmp/shdx.txt sh/dx on 40m<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>which in dxspider's crontab would be:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>* * * * * run_cmd('save /tmp/shdx.txt , "sh/dx on 40m"')<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kin EA3CV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>De:</b> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> <b>En nombre de </b>John Spigel via Dxspider-support<br><b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 3 de febrero de 2023 4:30<br><b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br><b>CC:</b> John Spigel <w1an.dxusa@gmail.com><br><b>Asunto:</b> [Dxspider-support] External Command showdx not working. Another way to do?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Sysops,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Im trying to get the external showdx command to work, but I get an error message from Prefix.PM<br><br>(*) Spot::init - reading in 2 days of spots into cache<br>Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at /spider/perl/Prefix.pm line 216<br>, <GEN1> line 1.<br><br>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?<br><br>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?<br><br>sysop@DxSpider:~/spider/perl$ ./showdx on 40m<br> 7049.1 YO3FJM 3-Feb-2023 0223Z FT4 <K4WMS><br> 7129.0 W1AW/5 3-Feb-2023 0221Z VOTA / Texas <N0TR><br> 7074.6 IN3EJX 3-Feb-2023 0220Z <KF0GE><br> 7047.5 VE3KAE 3-Feb-2023 0219Z 73 tks <EA5UB><br> 7047.5 KN4QHZ 3-Feb-2023 0218Z 73 tks <EA5UB><br> 7190.0 W1AW/4 3-Feb-2023 0218Z LSB KP13eh -> EM83 <OH6BQH><br> 7047.5 W4CPO 3-Feb-2023 0217Z 73 tks <EA5UB><br> 7047.5 NS2X 3-Feb-2023 0215Z 73 tks <EA5UB></span><o:p></o:p></p><pre> 7047.5 WB9WOZ 3-Feb-2023 0215Z 73 tks <EA5UB><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> 7074.8 LX2KD 3-Feb-2023 0215Z <N8IK><br><br>73, John W1AN</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>