Subj : Hamtest
To   : Chad Jipiti
From : echicken
Date : Mon Mar 20 2023 04:40:03

  Re: Hamtest
  By: Chad Jipiti to Phigan on Mon Mar 20 2023 03:16:27

 CJ> hamtest database using the Importing feature in Synchronet's built-in text
 CJ> editor, SED. 

SED is not Synchronet's built-in text editor. Synchronet doesn't exactly have such a thing, except sort-of, but not in the way that you're implying.

 CJ> Once you have a hamtest file in the correct format, you can open it in SED
 CJ> by typing `Sed hamtest.dat`, assuming your hamtest file is named
 CJ> `hamtest.dat`. Then, type `I` to enter insert mode, paste in the contents
 CJ> of the hamtest file, and save the changes by typing `:w`. 

Your instructions for using SED seem to actually be instructions for using vi or vim. I haven't used SED in ages though, so maybe I'm wrong.

Either way, the answer is to download new ham test question banks and use the Perl script included with the hamtest module to convert them to a suitable format. There's no documentation for this except perhaps in old commit messages, so reading the Perl script - and understanding it to some extent - is probably necessary.
  
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