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17 <address><a href="mailto:djk@tobit.co.uk">Dirk Koopman G1TLH</a></address>
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25 The DXSpider system is designed to be extensible, to facilitate experimentation and
26 self-training in both Amateur Radio and Programming.
28 <p>Having said all of that it is also designed so that it should be relatively easy to solve
29 some real world problems that we have in the DX Cluster network as well as allow the implementation
30 and testing of new protocols relatively safely.
34 The mechanism I have chosen to allow people to do their own thing, is a perl <tt>.pm</tt> file called
35 <b>Local.pm</b>. It is simply a perl package with its own address space, which has a number of defined
36 subroutines called from certain places in the daemon code. I have provided a "blank" version for you
41 The template is <b>/spider/perl/Local.pm</b>. This file should be
42 copied into <b>/spider/local</b> and then modified to your taste.
44 <p>At the moment, the template's format and standard functions are
45 not really finalised, but I won't take away the functions that are
46 currently there and I won't rename them. I reserve the right to
49 <p>As and when I get a clearer idea of what people might wish to do with
50 it and how, I will add to the documentation on this page. So for now:
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