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The programs ltest and stest are used to test out the dxcc.list and ss.list
files to make sure that they will work with a given callsign or section.
In both cases they can take one or two optional arguments.
ltest [-] [filename]
stest [-] [filename]
The optional argument - will make them print out the entire prefix
(ltest) or section (stest) list so that you can see if they are assigning
the prefix (section abbreviation) to the correct country (section).
They both then wait for you type in a call or a section and will tell
you if they don't recognize it. If they do then they print out the info
they have found. For example, with stest you can type in the kind of
abbreviations for sections that you hear in FD or SS and check to see if the
program can find them. This is very useful because both programs use EXACTLY
the same routine and file as do the contesting programs themselves. If ltest
or stest fail to find something, then the contest program will also fail and
you fix up the file so that it will work.
For stest, the section list file (ss.list) lists the standard
abbreviation and full name of each section, separated by colons. Then after
the second colon is a comma-separated list of the abbreviations that the
program should map into the standard abbreviation. For example, it will
map SK and SASK into the standard abbreviation SK. Note that the ONLY
wildcard available is the * which means match everything else after this.
Also note that the * can only appear at the end of an abbreviation.
As an example, notice how you must distinguish between Orange and Oregon.
You cannot use or* in either of them because then they can be confused for
each other. There must be enough context to uniquely distinguish them.
Therefore you require Ora* to guarantee a mtach with Orange, and Ore* to
properly match Oregon.
The programs do not distinguish between upper and lower case so you can
use either or both as you see fit. They are all translated into upper case
when the program reads them in.
The optional argument "filename" allows you to specify a different list
file than the default, such as carf.list or cqww.list.