[nos-bbs] JNOS & tactical calls

[FiSH]

Hi Harry,

Glad you got it working and it's nice to know that others want to use tactical 
calls too.

Guess I could have done a better job of telling folks about the format of the 
TacCalls file.  There are some comments inside callval.c but those should be 
added to the README which is in the ./k6fsh subdirectory.  Thanks to Michael, 
N6MEF for his very clear explanation.

One other thing, if you UNDEFINE MBX_AREA_PROMPT and MBX_MORE_PROMPT it should 
eliminate the need to pre-configure users to "expert" mode.  We use Outpost too.

Regards,
FiSH  K6FSH


 


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From: Harry Stone <harrystone at gmail.com>
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List <nos-bbs at tapr.org>
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 3:54:31 PM
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] JNOS & tactical calls

Well that was quick.  I'd already put them in users.dat so they would have 
expert mode pre-configured for use with Outpost.  This:

cat spool/users.dat |awk {'print $1'} >TacCalls 

will build that TacCalls file in one whack.  I deleted the few registered users 
with valid calls from the head of the file and it was good to go.  

Thanks!

harry




On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Harry Stone <harrystone at gmail.com> wrote:

Michael,
>     Thanks very much, that should solve my problem!  I had no TacCalls file at 
>all, I didn't know that how it works.
>
>
>harry
>KD0NFY
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF <n6mef at mefox.org> wrote:
>
>Hi Harry,
>> 
>>Fish, K6FSH was the originator of that code, so perhaps Fish or Maiko may 
>>comment here on the code details.
>> 
>>I can comment on the configuration side.  The way it works is it looks for a 
>>file called “TacCalls” in the JNOS directory.  If the login is found in the 
>>TacCalls file, then the person is logged in.  If the login is not found in the 
>>TacCalls file, then the usual call sign validity check is run.  The formatting 
>>rules for the TacCalls file are:
>> 
>>1)  The file is a plain text file
>>2)  Lines beginning with “#” are ignored (comments)
>>3)  Blank lines are ignored
>>4)  Valid tactical calls are listed one per line, beginning in the first 
>column.
>>5)  White space followed by anything else on the line after each tactical call 
>>is ignored.
>> 
>>So our typical TacCalls file looks like:
>> 
>># comment
>># comment
>>#
>># Tactical Calls for Division ABC
>>#
>>abc123                  Division abc, site 123
>>abc456                  Division abc, site 456
>> 
>>#
>># Tactical Calls for Division 123
>>#
>>123ppp                 Division 123, site ppp
>> 
>>Etc.
>> 
>>In our county network, we allow each agency to submit a list of tactical calls.  
>>We concatenate them together to form the TacCalls file.  Here’s a link to the 
>>instructions we provide our folks.  Hope it helps:  
>>http://www.scc-ares-races.org/packet/SCC_Pkt_Tac_Call_Request_v100913.pdf.  Note 
>>that we require a description next to teach tactical call.  But that is an 
>>administrative requirement.  It is not required by the code.
>> 
>>A note on performance:  Our tactical call list current 678 lines long, yet we 
>>perceive no difference in login speed with or without the tactical call lookup.
>> 
>>Michael
>>N6MEF
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>From:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Harry Stone
>>Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:04 PM
>>To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List
>>Subject: [nos-bbs] JNOS & tactical calls
>> 
>>I see in the config header that tactical call checks can be defined, but 
>>defining that and re-compiling seems to disable any kind of call sign validity 
>>check.  Is that by design, or am I just missing something else I need to enable 
>>or disable? 
>> 
>>The calls I need to be able to accept for login follow this rather loose 
>>convention:
>> 
>>1CGEOC
>>1CGEM1
>>1CGEM2
>> 
>>etc.
>> 
>>Thanks!
>>harry
>>KD0NFY
>>
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