[Ham-Mac] Google Maps or Google Earth with fldigi for Mac

[John Wiener]

I thought I'd try this again.
I have corresponded with Dave W1HKJ and, apparently, no one has tried  
successfully to use Google Maps or Google Earth through fldigi on a  
Mac (10.4) ...at least using the Perl software listed here:

http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp/map.html



I got this message from David M0XDF

"ok, looking into this a little more, I think this script is intended  
for Linux - line 26:
     exec("xdg-open", $url);
xdg-open is a Linux command, the equivalent on OSX is "open", so  
either change xdg-open to open in map.pl
or create a symbolic link of xdg-open to open so other Linux scripts  
will work, to do this, open a terminal window using the Terminal  
application and type the following commands:

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s open xdg-open

that last command will ask for your password."

So, I am not a programmer and I guess I cannot wrap this old brain  
around the above instructions.  Any help much appreciated.
And, Thanks to Dave W1HKJ and David M0XDF!

73

John
AB8O