XDX(1)

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✨ XDX(1) ✨ — the ham radio girlies' fave

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for XDX(1), filed under Ham radio 🎀, and honestly? it's giving certified classic. sit down, grab a strawberry, and let me tell you everything 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

Xdx — a TCP/IP DX-cluster client for Amateur Radio 📻✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

xdx [-c cty.dat] [-h] [-V]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. three flags, no drama 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So Xdx is a DX-cluster client for the X Window System, and the way it works is iconic: it shows you a whole list of DX announcements 🌈 AND, separately, a second list with WWV, WCY, To ALL and all the other server messages — all chillin' together in a single X11 window. one window, two lists, main character energy 👑

It uses the telnet protocol to connect to a DX-Cluster host over TCP/IP. And like, yeah, host connections are most commonly made via the Internet, but bestie — any medium that can carry TCP/IP is fair game, packet radio included 📡 no cap.

And the best part? Your host connection details are saved between sessions. So you don't have to re-type everything every single time. obsessed 😭🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Here's every single flag Xdx recognizes. no skips, no summaries, we keep ALL the lore:

  • -c cty.dat, --cty_dat=cty.dat — load whatever country data file you want 💫

Country data files are literally what determine the DX Century Club (DXCC) entity that shows up in the Country column. You can grab updated country files from country-files.com. And yeah, a country file does ship with Xdx already, but ngl it will get out of date fast because updates drop constantly 🙈. Announcements about updated country files get sent to the Xdx mailing list — peep the BUGS section below for that mailing list address.

Also? Check the ENVIRONMENT and FILES sections below, because there are other ways to load a fresh country file 👀

  • -h, --help — prints a short Xdx usage message with all the available options, then exits. cute and quick 🎀
  • -V, --version — prints the Xdx version plus a little copyright info, then exits. the flex ✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • XDX_CTY — if $XDX_CTY is set, its value is the location of the cty.dat file 📁. And heads up: using the -c option overrides this environment variable. periodt.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • $HOME/.xdx/cty.dat — Xdx will load the country file it finds in the preferences directory (normally $HOME/.xdx) whenever the -c option isn't given or the XDX_CTY environment variable isn't set 💜. It's a super convenient way to keep an up-to-date or custom cty.dat that's just for Xdx and nobody else. lowkey genius.

👑 NOTES 👑

Xdx has a new maintainer, and that's Nate Bargmann, N0NB 🫶

Development is currently hosted at GitHUb 🐙

Also Xdx has been translated into several languages 🌍 and more translations are always welcome!! Please contact the maintainer if you want to contribute — that's your sign, bestie 💌

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs to xdxcluster-client-discuss 🙈 (yes, that's the mailing list the options section was talking about, iykyk)

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

From the menu, select Help->Manual after starting Xdx for a full manual 📖✨

and that's the whole page!! written by Joop Stakenborg, this is Xdx 2.91, filed as XDX(1) — mwah, take care of her 💅💖🦋

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