[Dx4win] Problem with FILE|IMPORT/EXPORT Screen

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jan 29 10:03:38 EST 2008


Hi Roger,

It sounds like your import/export filter is corrupt.

I've attached my file from 7.03.  Shut down DX4WIN and put the attached 
file in your DX4W###\SAVE directory.  Then re-start DX4WIN and see if 
it's working again.

73 - Jim AD1C

On 1/28/2008 4:27 PM, Roger Marrotte wrote:
> Last night after working a few contacts in the 160m contest I tried to
> import the contacts from Writelog to DX4WIN as I usually do after each
> contest.  I have DX4WIN Ver. 7.03.16, which I believe is the latest version
> available.  I converted the the Writelog contest file to ADIF, ran DX4WIN,
> clicked on FILE, then on Import/Export.  The screen that showed up consisted
> mostly of garbage characters.  I could see the three columns that are
> usually there, ID, USAGE and DESCRIPTION.  Some of the text that usually
> shows up in each column look correct but most of the text was pure garbage.
> As a former programmer, it looked to me as if a table of text was messed up,
> or an index was wrong or a format statement was wrong, or something like
> that.  I eventually guessed the correct place to click on and successfully
> imported the data.  I've never seen this before with DX4WIN.  Has anyone
> else seen this?  Is this a known problem.  Do I have a corrupted file.
> Except for this one window with funny characters in it, DX4WIN seems to be
> working correctly.


-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us


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