Re: [Tlf-devel] Handling multiplier aliases?

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Nate and others,

sorry for writing the last letter to early. 

Please stop the tests of the new feature for now. I just found that
I forgot to change one point. Have to fix that first.

73, de Tom




Am Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:10:40 +0100
schrieb Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden>:

> Hi Nate,
> 
> in last days I found time to implement the mechanism for handling
> multiplier aliases. Please have a look at the 'alias_multi' branch at
> https://github.com/dl1jbe/tlf/tree/alias_multi
> 
> As proposed you can add the following lines to the multsfile:
> 
> NV:...,...,..., ...
> WY:...,...,..., ...
> 
> There may be a plain NV or WY line before and you can even have more
> than one line with same Multi and different aliases. The aliases will
> add in that case.
> 
> The only to point to look for is that the aliases should be unique.
> 
> Please check if it works as expected and report back. The code 
> still needs some cleanup and also the documentation in man page is
> missing. I will do that after getting some feedback.
> 
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
> 
> 
> 
>  Am Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:34:47 -0500
> schrieb Nate Bargmann <address@hidden>:
> 
> > * On 2018 12 Jun 12:08 -0500, Thomas Beierlein wrote:  
> > > Hi Nate,    
> >   
> > > Yes, it was. Weather was a little bit tough (thunderstorm in the
> > > evening) but all went well.    
> > 
> > A storm line formed overhead last night and there was hail reported
> > about 20 miles east of here and in the next county east there were
> > tornado warnings.  I'm glad that we missed out on that "fun"!
> >   
> > > > It occurred to me later that GKeyFile expects entries to be
> > > > key=value pairs.  My list would seem to be breaking that as it
> > > > would, at best, merely be a list of keys.  I *think* that would
> > > > be workable, but maybe not.
> > > > 
> > > > I like your method of defining the alias mult and its aliases.
> > > > In fact, for those parties that require it, multiple mults and
> > > > aliases could be easily defined.  for the 7 Land QSO Party it
> > > > could be:   
> > > Yes, that was one reason behind that solution.    
> > 
> > Excellent!
> >   
> > > > NV:...,...,..., ...
> > > > WY:...,...,..., ...
> > > > 
> > > > etc.
> > > > 
> > > > That is actually quite clever.    
> > > 
> > > Ok, then we will head in that direction.
> > > 
> > > I will try to finish TLF-1.3.1 over the weekend. We added a lot of
> > > stuff in last year - time to bring it out. Afterwards I will start
> > > adding the 'alias mults' feature.    
> > 
> > Sounds good, Tom.  I'm ready to test.  :-)
> > 
> > 73, Nate
> >   
> 
> 
> 



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