[Dx4win] EXT DATA Mystery

[Joe Giacobello]

Ernie and Tony, man tnx!!!!!

73, Joe

Tony Lord wrote:

>Joe,
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>I agree with Ernie, that's exactly what I had to do!
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>Good luck
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>Tony G8DQZ
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ernie Howard
>Sent: 07 September 2004 12:08
>To: k2xx at swva.net; dx4win at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Dx4win] EXT DATA Mystery
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>Move your 'callbk' directory to the root of C drive, "C:/callbk". Then
>set in 
>prefrences for "QRZ CD ROM", and data directory as "C:" with nothing
>else. It 
>will then find the data.
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>73 Ernie W8EH
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>Joe Giacobello wrote:
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>>I have been successfully using the RAC (Flying Horse) database on my 
>>hard drive for several years to look up call signs through DX4WIN's
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>>DATA routine.  This weekend I picked up a copy of QRZ's current
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>database 
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>>and attempted to do the same thing, i.e copy the database to my HD and
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>>access the callsign info from the HD.  For some mysterious reason that
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>>doesn't work.
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>>Although I have declared C:\program files\qrz ham radio\callbk as my 
>>data directory in the preferences>EXT DATA menu, I get a "database not
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>>found" error.  However, if I put the original CD ROM in my ROM drive,
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>>returns the proper information.  In other words, despite my declaring 
>>the C: drive as the data drive, DX4WIN is getting the data from the CD
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>>ROM and refuses to access the C: drive when the CD ROM is removed.
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>>I switched back to use the RAC database on my HD and that works fine.
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>>Does anyone know what's going on here?
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>>Tnx es 73 de Joe
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