Re: TLF logger, countrylist file format?

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Gerard,

just some words before I am away:

Am Fri, 4 Mar 2022 07:02:21 +0000
schrieb Gerard van Antwerpen <GerardA@cuddon.co.nz>:

> Hi Tom,
> I tried to add the beru: to the start of the file, and it gets read
> now (I also think it needs to be in the main contest directory, not
> the one with the rules in it), however I am getting the following
> error message:
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>    Welcome to tlf-1.4.0 by PA0R!!
> 
...
> Reading contest rules file: rules/beru*** buffer overflow detected
> ***: terminated Aborted
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

That is a bug we have to fix and it is thanks to the long line which
TLF does not handle properly.

> It is a long list of countries, but trimming it back doesn't help.
> Putting a short country list in the rules file does get read, but
> doesn't seem to affect scoring, all contacts are given 5 points (as I
> set with CWPOINTS=5), and also points for my call area while I set
> MY_COUNTRY_POINTS=0
> 
Please drop the CWPOINTS and SSBPOINTS setting and use
COUNTRY_LIST_POINTS=5 instead.

73, de Tom DL1JBE

> 
> No panic, as I'm not relying on it for scoring points, it'd be nice
> to get it working though. Thanks,
> Gerard, ZL2GVA
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Thomas Beierlein <tb@forth-ev.de>
> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 10:14 AM
> To: Gerard van Antwerpen <GerardA@cuddon.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: TLF logger, countrylist file format?
> 
> Hi Gerard,
> 
> I think there is one piece of information missing from the
> documentation:
> 
> You have to start the line of countries with the name of the actual
> contest. That means if you have a line
> 
> CONTEST=beru
> 
> in your logcfg.dat than the countrylist line should read
> 
> beru:<cty1>,<cty2>,.....
> 
> You can put the line in a file and use
> 
> COUNTRYLIST=<filename>
> 
> or you can put the line directly into the COUNTRYLIST definition
> 
> COUNTRYLIST=beru:......
> 
> If that does not help, please send us a copy of your logcfg.dat and
> the countrylist file.
> 
> 73, de Tom
> 
> P.S. I will be away for some days starting on Saturday. So if above
> suggestions do not work please contact the other OMs at TLFs
> mailing list (tlf-devel@nongnu.org). They will be glad to give some
> more advice.
> 
> Am Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:53:33 +0000
> schrieb Gerard van Antwerpen <GerardA@cuddon.co.nz>:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I haven't used TLF for logging, but trying it out to see if I could
> > use if for the upcomming BERU contest. There is a long list of
> > eligible country prefixes that are valid for getting points. It
> > doesn't fit in the config file, so I tried to make a separate
> > countrylist file. (called berucountries no extension). I used the
> > list, all on one line, comma separated, starting with colon (and
> > also tried without this). However the program doesn't seem to read
> > the list and allocates points to any call I enter. Then I tried the
> > pre-fixes each on their own line in the file, same result.
> >
> > I have got USE_COUNTRYLIST_ONLY SET, and also
> > COUNTRYLIST=berucounties
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > Appreciate your help.
> > Thanks,
> > Gerard ZL2GVA
> > Gerard van Antwerpen, Blenheim, NZ
> 
> 
> 
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