[Dx4win] That darn asterisk

[PY2YP]

Randy you're not alone, I do second you again.

73 DX de PY2YP - Cesar

Randy Farmer wrote:
> I had mentioned in my post yesterday that somehow the Report Listing 
> file had mysteriously converted the Minami Torishima prefix from 
> JD1/M to JD1/W. I did a little detective work today and found out 
> what happened. When I edit the csv Listing file in Wordpad to change 
> the asterisk to something that Excel finds more digestible, I also 
> routinely convert all the "M" flags (and the "L" flags in Version 7) 
> to "W", since my Excel application really only cares about whether 
> something is Worked (W), Confirmed (C) or Credited (X). I've been 
> doing this for the three years or so since I started using Excel to 
> track my DXCC stats and set up submissions. It works fine.
> 
> It turns out that even when you tick the "Match whole word only" box 
> in the Search and Replace function in Wordpad, it goes ahead and 
> changes every occurrence of "/M" to "/W" (thanks, Bill). So not only 
> was JD1/M getting changed to JD1/W, HK0/M turned into HK0/W, etc. 
> This never caused me any problem with the Version 7 report files, 
> because I just dumped the csv file into Excel, selected the 160 
> through 6 data cells and pasted the cell contents into my main 
> spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is set up just like the Version 6 
> listing file, with the active prefixes sorted alphabetically at the 
> top of the list followed by the deleted prefixes sorted 
> alphabetically at the bottom of the list.
> 
> But... the Version 8 Listing format has changed, and now the prefixes 
> are listed in straight alphabetical order, with the deleted prefixes 
> interleaved with the active prefixes. This means to get the data in 
> the order I need for my spreadsheet I have to do a sort by first the 
> "D" field and then the Prefix field. When I do this sort, the 
> erroneous JD1/W now gets put behind Ogasawara, JD1/O and the 
> Ogasawara and Minami Torishima data lines are now reversed.
> 
> All of this is a long way of explaining why I'm making a request to 
> revise Version 8 in two ways:
> 
> 1. Use some character other than * to flag entries ineligible for 
> DXCC submission in the Report module.
> 
> 2. PLEASE restore the Prefix order in the Report Listing format to 
> that used in Version 7, with the active prefix list followed by the 
> deleted prefix list.
> 
> Since there will undoubtedly be some fine tuning happening after the 
> initial release of V8.01 this would be a good time to make these 
> changes. The asterisk issue is really pretty minor, but fixing it 
> would make life easier for those of us who import the report file 
> into Excel for whatever reason without forcing an intermediate editor 
> session to replace the character.
> 
> The change in the Listing prefix order is really a giant step 
> backwards in user friendliness. There's really no point in cluttering 
> the report with dozens of dead prefixes that most users never have, 
> and certainly never will, encounter in their logs. Put the deleted 
> prefixes at the end of the listing where they won't bother those who 
> don't need them.
> 
> It may sound like I'm incessantly whining about small things, and 
> perhaps I am. But I still really like the new version. I'm looking 
> forward to getting my license key so I can start using it in earnest.
> 
> 73...
> Randy, W8FN
> 
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