[Dx4win] Need Help With BV7 Softtware

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Crashing is bad.  I'll add a check so the program doesn't crash if
this occurs (badly-formed ADIF freq. field).

- Jim

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Randy Farmer <w8fn at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>  On the web is a free adif program (editor/converter) called ADIFMASTER
>>- You can open your adif file with that prg and check if names,fields are
>>correct
>
> Which brings up an interesting experience I just had with ADIFMASTER.
> It's a really useful tool for looking at and editing ADIF files, but
> I found that after I did an edit and saved the modified file the new
> file would crash AD1C's ADIF2DXQ program. After about an hour of hair
> pulling I looked closely at the modified file and found that it had
> converted all the decimal points in the frequency field values to
> European standard commas. This blew the software's mind. The fix was
> easy; I just did a global search and replace in WordPad to change the
> commas back to periods.
>
> A word to the wise.
>
> 73...
> Randy, W8FN

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