Bug-free sector files

[ShawnDriscoll]

The Travellermap lint tool hates the files generated by Heaven and Earth. One of my old hard drives my have World Builder on it. I don't know if that app made sector files or not.

The lint tool didn't give specifics as far as what the 617 errors found were. Anyway... I was going to convert my CSV files into (I guess) SEC files. Travellermap doesn't say what file extensions to use for which file formats. The GEnie one looks good, but does it use SEC for an extension? It's been forever since I touched an Apple ][+ or a 286.

Heaven and Earth can open files that it creates. So that is good. I can make my code output such files to open in H&E. But I'd like my files to open in Travellermap without errors.

Anyone know of a sample sector file that I can download that Travellermap's lint tool will scan without errors? That way, I can check its file format with what I'm outputting.

 

[robject]

Anyone know of a sample sector file that I can download that Travellermap's lint tool will scan without errors? That way, I can check its file format with what I'm outputting.

I think this would do:

https://travellermap.com/data/spin

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Do you know of one that doesn't have the T5 stuff in it?

 

[inexorabletash]

Extensions don't matter; the content is sniffed.

Data formats are detailed at:

https://TravellerMap.com/doc/fileformats

You can request a sector in legacy "sec" format for comparison with:

https://TravellerMap.com/data/spin?type=SEC

(Replace "spin" with the sector name or abbreviation)

Apologies for the lack of meaningful errors. I've been trying to improve them, but there is more work to do.

 

[inexorabletash]

Also, email me one of the files that is being complained about. I'll see if I can figure out why the site is complaining.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

I gave up on SEC and deleted everything having to do with Heaven and Earth from my system. It's legacy, after all. I'll just stick to using CSV (with commas) between the apps I've written. Datafile errors are kept at a minimum during I/O.