[Dx4win] 6.04 upgrade problems

[Wayne]

Jim and Floyd,

Am I mistaken, or if Floyd had copied his DX4WIN.CTY file AND his .DXL file 
into the 6.04 save folder for DX4WIN 6.04 all would have stayed the same in 
his country count and listings?

Also if he had MERGED the Country files would he get the notices of the 
differences he is looking for?

Jim, I for one really appreciate the time and effort you are taking into 
getting the CTY file up to date. This is an enormous project and one that 
I'm sure has lots of "what in the heck did I start this for" thoughts! <G>

DX4WIN is one of the best logging programs out there and as such has a 
great deal of information the user needs to learn in order to get as smooth 
a transition to newer releases as possible. I am still learning all the 
intricacies of the program and have fought with my own lack of knowledge in 
getting some things done.

Always remember to make a backup of all log data before moving on and you 
can always try different methods of upgrading to see which works best for 
you as well as returning to what you had before the upgrade. No one has to 
upgrade.

Jim has a lot of good information on his web site and anyone making changes 
to his log or upgrading it, should take the time to read all 
the  information they can find about the process before doing it.

Thanks for all your help and work with DX4WIN Jim.

73,

Wayne  WA1PMA


At 08:12 AM 2/23/2005 -0800, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>--- Floyd Sense <fsense at copper.net> wrote:
>
> > Now, here's the new problem.  While trying to reconcile differences in the
> > country counts on all bands, I've run into a number of QSOs for which 
> DX4WIN
> > erased the country name and prefix (that means they are now blank).  One
> > such QSO was for a contact logged as c/ZL3HI on Chatham Is.  That is 
> the way
> > the call was sent, so that's the way it was logged.  However, in the 
> country
> > file, it's entered as: ZL3HI/C.  It's probably not reasonable to have it
> > both ways in the country file, but it also is not reasonable to have 
> DX4WIN
> > arbitrarily blank the country and prefix fields without any indication 
> that
> > it happened.
>
>If DX4WIN can't determine the country from the callsign, the prefix will be
>blank. Try entering FR7AA/E or ZL4BO/C and see what happens.  You can probably
>guess where these are, but the program can't guess.  The same goes for the
>various X5-callsigns that don't count for DXCC.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
>=====
>Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
>USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us