[Dx4win] Question

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- rsmorris <rsmorris at att.net> wrote:

> Wondering how a dx4win.~xb logfile is created??

Let say your log is named W4MYA.DXL.  It lives in your SAVE directory.

Any time you save (ALT-S, close the log or exit the program), the old W4MYA.DXL
gets written to W4MYA.~XL and the new log is saved as W4MYA.DXL.

Any time the program saves your QSOs automatically (i.e. when the countdown
timer expires), DX4WIN saves them to DX4WIN.DXB in the program (not SAVE)
directory.  If there was previously a DX4WIN.DXB there, it first renames that
file to DX4WIN.~XB then saves your QSOs in DX4WIN.DXB. 

So in theory, W4MYA.DXL should always be newer/bigger than W4MYA.~XL, and
DX4WIN.DXB should always be newer/bigger than DX4WIN.~XB.  If an autosave
occurred, then DX4WIN.DXB will be newer/bigger than W4MYA.DXL.  If a second
autosave occurred, then DX4WIN.~XB could be newer/biger than W4MYA.DXL.  But it
should NEVER be newer/bigger than DX4WIN.DXB -- the only way this can occur is
if the program did not shut down properly, or you forgot to save your log upon
exiting.

Does this make sense?

73 - Jim AD1C


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