mheardd and mheard.dat?

[Benedict P. Barszcz]

Hi,
I need a hint on what I am doing wrong when I try to use 'mheard' beacause it
complains about a data file. From the manual page I figured out it looks for
/var/mheard/mheard.dat which doesn't exist on my system. Is that file generated
automatically by mheardd - the daemon?

If so, my copy of mheardd doesn't do it in spite of me launching it this way:
mheardd -f -l -n 10 <enter>

I have libax25, ax25-apps and ax25-tools, kernel 2.2.10.

thanks for help.
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