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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.
-