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

[J. C. Mc Laughlin]

Dear Mr. Reisert:  Thank you for responding.

I gave the referenced link another try and found a dead end at " Download 
the ZIP file from the link above.  "  No link is seen.  Clicking on the blue 
"link above" takes me to the top of the same page.  (Second sentence under 
"Installation instructions.")    Might an actual URL be available that takes 
one to the ZIP file desired?

Your belief that ZIP files are less likely to be corrupted than the actual 
file is truly fascinating and a novel idea that I will discuss with my 
colleague in the Computer Science department.  It would not ever have 
occurred to me.

The need for a matching file was not apparent.  Thank you for pointing out 
its importance, although I have no expectation of exporting information from 
DX4WIN other than to the printer when printing labels.  The second paragraph 
of the "Installation instructions" includes:  "Extract the ADIF.PMP file 
from the archive and save it into the IMPORT directory."  Not clear where 
the "archive" is to be accessed.

Thank you for your continuing assistance and patience.  I will not do this 
difficult task again even if ARRL adds more new entities.

73,   Mac   N8TT   P.S. I am using Windows 7

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 3:27 PM
To: J. C. Mc Laughlin
Cc: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] No luck at all in downloading new countries' file

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


J. C. Mc Laughlin
Michigan U.S.A.
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