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    <font face="monospace">Kin, thanks that works beautifully in spider
      console, but </font><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace">I
        tried in spidercron with several iterations and was unable to
        get better than an 'Invalid command' message in the text file.
        If I am able to get it to function in spidercron it does has
        potential. </font>I was trying to get it from the command line
      as an external functions as in the past. Either way will be good
      in the end. I'm open for suggestions.<br>
      73, John W1AN<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-Feb-23 04:25, Kin wrote:<br>
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            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>
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            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>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b>De:</b> Dxspider-support
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk></a> <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
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk"><dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk></a><br>
              <b>CC:</b> John Spigel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:w1an.dxusa@gmail.com"><w1an.dxusa@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Asunto:</b> [Dxspider-support] External Command showdx
              not working. Another way to do?<o:p></o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
            New"">Sysops,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <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>
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