[Dx4win] Problem with FILE|IMPORT/EXPORT Screen

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jan 29 11:12:33 EST 2008


He's using 7.03 and the IEP filter I sent him was from 7.03.  It didn't 
fix the problem.

On 1/29/2008 8:55 AM, AC0W wrote:
> I found 7.03.x  does not like the import/export file used with 7.02.x.
> 
> I ran into this same problem when copied the file over from 7.02 and tried to use it in 7.03.15. Since 7.03 does not like the older file I am having to re-enter all my custom imports 7.03.
> 
> Bill
> AC0W
> 
> ---- Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote: 
> 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.
> 
> 

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


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