[Ham-Mac] Update on the ARRL Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic QSLing project

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On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 08:48  AM, Marinus van Opzeeland wrote:
> Richard Kriss heeft op zaterdag, 31 mei 2003 om 13:50 
> (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:
>> Based on the posting date this train left the station a long time ago 
>> and it
>> is probably a waste of time and energy for the Mac user community to 
>> object
>> at this time.
>
> I have downloaded the source from the CVS and tried to compile. 
> Obviously got an error but with some work I think this should work in 
> Darwin. Is any off our on list developers already working on this ? If 
> not I may just ask the tqsl guys if they want to help out.

  I had it compiled with an earlier version, and it seems to include an 
obsolete getopt.h header file, which is now covered by the unistd.h 
file. I just commented out all of the #include <getopt.h> lines from 
the .cpp files, and it worked.

  However, I haven't tried with the latest version. Interestingly 
enough, I couldn't find any source release for the new library on 
sourceforge, I just pulled the source from the CVS tree to look at it.

  I sent a note with my dissatisfaction to the ARRL, and I knew they 
wouldn't care. They didn't. <sigh> I still think it's awful that 
membership dues would pay developers for the Windows and Linux 
platforms and yet they expect Mac developers to do it for free.

  Yes, with the info that is out there, it can be done, and probably not 
too much work. And, for the betterment of the Mac community, it will be 
done by some developer. It just sucks that life is slanted this way 
some times... The bad guys win again. Just because you might get what 
you want doesn't make it right... :-(

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