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

[Masa Miura, AJ3M]

If you click on the blue "link above" in the Installation instructions 
section of the DX4WIN Country File page 
(http://www.country-files.com/dx4win/index.htm), it takes you to the top 
of the same page. If you click on "DX4WIN.CTY #90" in the first 
sentence, it takes you to the DX4WIN.CTY Revision History page. Then, 
you click on "Release #90 - 16 January 2011" to download the zip file 
that Jim mentioned.

73,

Masa
AJ3M

On 1/29/2011 5:08 PM, J. C. Mc Laughlin wrote:
> 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.
>

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Masa Miura, AJ3M
Bethesda, MD
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Email: masa.miura.aj3m at gmail.com