[Dx4win] Re: QRZ CDROM Bug

[Dick Flanagan]

At 09:02 AM 1/15/2006, Jack Headley -  W0KXZ wrote:
>Thanks for the note Dick.  I am not sure we are talking about the same 
>thing.  I have not problem getting the info to read correctly when I use 
>the CDROM directly.  What I want to do is load the CDROM onto my hard 
>drive and eliminate having to use the CD itself.  The manual says to just 
>put in the full path, but I sure can't find a combo that will make it 
>play.  If I look at the path in Windows Explorer and duplicate that it 
>still won't work.  Also using "RUN" from the windows desktop and typing in 
>that same path works just fine.  Just can't figure out what DX4WIN wants 
>for a path.  73's Jack W0KXZ

Hi, Jack.

As far as I can tell, there is a bug in DX4WIN 7.01 where the only way it 
will recognize the QRZ CDROM is if you give it a drive letter.  If you copy 
the CDROM data to your local hard drive, DX4WIN will not recognize it if 
you just enter the full path name in the appropriate Preferences--ExtData 
field.

The only way I have been able to get DX4WIN to access the QRZ CDROM data 
after it has been copied to a hard drive is when that hard drive exists on 
a remote computer and then I can assign a network drive letter to it.  (I 
have tried to assign a drive letter to my local QRZ program directory using 
the old DOS SUBST command, but DX4WIN doesn't recognize it, either.)

For example, I have my QRZ CDROM copied to the standard 'C:\Program 
Files\QRZ Ham Radio' directory on my 'shack110' remote computer.  I then 
assign the network drive letter 'Z:' to '\\shack110\c\Program Files\QRZ Ham 
Radio\' and I am able to successfully have DX4WIN on my local computer 
access the disk drive-resident QRZ files on the remote computer by placing 
'Z:' in the appropriate DX4WIN Preferences-ExtData field.

Perhaps someone on the reflector can explain to both of us how to get 
DX4WIN to utilize QRZ CDROM data that has been copied to a local disk 
directory.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org