[Dx4win] DX Spots Window

Rick Murphy [email protected]
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:21:55 -0500


At 05:40 PM 2/20/2003 +0100, Erik Hyllander wrote:
>Hello,
>last Feb. 15 I posted the following message:
>
> >"Another observation is that all spots from internet are lost after 
> exit from DX4WIN. When I use my "normal" set-up to >the local 
> DC-cluster via 144 MHz spots remain."
> >
> >Now the two cases are identical i.e. spots are lost when opening 
> DX4WIN again, v 6.02. I have the impression that it >was ok in the 
> beginning, there are spots saved from from Feb. 9 and 10. This has 
> nothing to do with checking 'Leave >all windows in original position' 
> in Preferences/Screen.
> >
> >I think it is of value to save earlier spots in this window to check 
> where a station has been operating etc.
> >
> >Paul, please put it back in the next version, it works ok in v 5.03.
>
>Now, I got the idea to reinstall 6.02 and found that it didn't help. 
>In DX4WIN.put there are a bunch of spots from start and they remain 
>but all spots added, coming from internet or local 144 MHz link, are 
>gone after restarting DX4WIN.

Check that the DX4WIN.put file isn't set read only (right click it in 
explorer and check the attributes, or use the 'ATTRIB DX4WIN.PUT' 
command in a DOS window.
If it's read-only, DX4WIN can't update it.
         -Rick