[Dx4win] No luck at all in downloading new countries' file

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jan 29 15:27:15 EST 2011


On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:16 PM, J. C. Mc Laughlin <jcm at power-net.net> wrote:
>
>> Please provided clear, step-by-step instructions for installing the revised .cty file.
>
> Just download the file manually by following these instruction:
> http://www.country-files.com/dx4win/index.htm
>
>> On the page just for the .cty file, I was not able to find a link to download just that file.  Please consider providing a method for downloading just a replacement file – no ZIP, no running a set-up program.
>
> Sorry, no. It's too easy to download a corrupted country file that
> way.  Better off packaging it inside something that ZIP can verify to
> be non-corrupt.

PLUS, you MUST download the matching ADIF.PMP that comes with the
country file, otherwise your ADIF imports/exports (i.e. to Logbook of
the World) won't work right.

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


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