Validation problem

At 12:30 05 December 2004, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:
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In article , Ian Cant writes
Yes. But equally, the third-party software providers
[like SeeYou] should be encouraged to ensure that their
download software is and remains fully compatible with
FAI validity checking requirements. I suspect that
in practice more people like to download with full
analysis software rather than download first with hardware
manufacturer's programs and then open into analysis
packages.

Ian

The whole point Ian, is that third party software should
use the latest
version of the manufacturers DLL (which is freeware),
then the download
and validation performed by via program will be up
to date by default.
In other words, the manufacturer's DLL becomes an integral
part of the
analysis software.

I would expect that when these DLLs become available,
writers of
analysis packages will not be slow to interface into
them. The interface
is published in the Flight Recorder Specification Document
and has been
for some time.


If that were so, Tim, then downloads using e.g. SeeYou
would be identical in validity to those used by Filser's
latest freeware [even if that is not itself fully Windows-compatib
le]. But that is demonstrably not the case, to the
extent that the SSA specifically advises against using
SeeYou for badge/record downloads.

I hope that SeeYou and Filser both have someone who
reads ras !

Ian