[drats_users] QST question

[Dan Smith]

> OK, I have a Microsoft Small Basic program that retrieves translated Metar
> data from the WEB and it appears to run in D-RATS, but I never see the data.
> What type of output from the "Exec" is D-RATS looking for?

Any text that the program outputs should go out as the QST message
(assuming a non-error exit of the program).  You might check the debug
log to see if it's actually running it and/or hitting some sort of
issue.  I've not done much of this on Windows, of course, but IZ5FSA has
and it used to work :)

> Do I need to write to a file?

No, but you can if you like.  Using the "File" QST type, D-RATS will
grab the content of a text file when the QST fires and use that.  So, if
your program writes to that file periodically, that's another way to do it.

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Dan Smith
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