[chirp_devel] Bug 937: FT-857D crashes due to problematic channel

[IZ3GME Marco]

Hi Robert
new patch is in on the way ...

73 de IZ3GME Marco

On 26/06/2013 16:26, Robert Terzi wrote:
> On 6/26/2013 2:37 AM, IZ3GME Marco wrote:
>
>> Can you please confirm that creating a short memory label on the radio
>> itself fires up the bug?
>
> I haven't found a way to create a label on the radio that isn't space padded
> out to 8 characters.
>
> It looks like it's the 0xff appearing in the 5th byte that triggers the bug
> on my radio.
>
> Note: the radio creates a default label of CH-NNN (6 chars) that you have to
> change to spaces if you have less than 6 chars.  (In my tests, the 7th and 8th
> bytes were spaces even though they weren't touched.)
>
> I'm told FTBasicMMO (G4HFQ's software for the ft-8x7) has always space padded to 8 chars.
>
>> FYI on my early FT857 I have many memories labels of 2,3 and 4
>> characters and I never had a problem, this issue must be limited to only
>> some production batches.
>
> But are they space padded, or filled out with 0xff?
>
> In your patch, the implied field names in the format strings won't work on Python
> versions < 2.7.  Specifying field 0 will allow it work on Python 2.6
>
>       Change '{<:5}' to '{0:<5}'
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
> --Rob
>
>
>
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