Re: Using a Different Configuration File

[Joop Stakenborg]

Maybe the package manager decided to add a shell script to the package called "tlf". This shell script will then call the binary and create the appropriate directories before starting the tlf binary. This would explain the odd behaviour you are seeing.

73 de Joop PG4I

Op do 20 feb. 2020 om 03:52 schreef Austin Seraphin, KA3TTT <address@hidden>:

Hi. Thanks for responding. The AUR has version 1.4.0. Neither solution
worked. No matter what it reads the default logcfg. file. Interestingly,
installing directly from source solved the problem. I use the first
method to have a separate logcfg.dat. Perfect, thanks! Perhaps the
package maintainer will read this.



On 2/19/20 6:39 AM, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
> I had a look at the Arch repository. From there I think you have
> a tlf-1.3.0 version.
>
> You have two ways to solve your problem:
>
> 1. Drop the space between '-f' and the filename, e.g.
>
> $ tlf -fqrpfoxhunt.dat
>
> 2. Use a separate directory, name the config file there just
> 'logcfg.dat' and call tlf without '-f'
>
> $ mkdir ~/tlf/contestdir
> $ cp logcfg.dat ~/tlf/contestdir
> $ cd ~/tlf/contestdir
>
>   adapt logcfg.dat as you like and finally just call
>
> $ tlf
>
> Hope that solves the problem.
>
> 73, de Tom DL1JBE
>
>
>  Am Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:32:50 -0500
> schrieb "Austin Seraphin, KA3TTT" <address@hidden>:
>
>> I installed TLF from the Arch User Repository. The first time I ran
>> it, it created ~/tlf, and copied a working file structure into it,
>> including rules, a logcfg.dat, and other files. I successfully edited
>> the logcfg.dat and began using it, but I can't seem to figure out how
>> to use another log file. I tried the obvious way of copying
>> logcfg.dat to a new file, say qrpfoxhunt.dat, and invoking with
>>
>> tlf -f qrpfoxhunt.dat
>>
>> I then read the older documentation, which suggested setting up a
>> directory structure. I created ~/tlf/qrpfoxhunt and moved the
>> qrpfoxhunt.dat to ~/tlf/qrpfoxhunt/logcfg.dat. I also copied in
>> rules/contest. I then tried a number of invocations:
>>
>> tlf -f qrpfoxhunt
>>
>> tlf -f ~/tlf/qrpfoxhunt
>>
>> tlf -f ~/tlf/qrpfoxhunt/logcfg.dat
>>
>> but nothing works. What have I missed?
>>
>>
>> I use a screen reader for the blind, and think this program would work
>> well for me.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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73, Austin, KA3TTT
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