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

[J. C. Mc Laughlin]

Dear Mr. Reisert:  Oh my!  A young person would have understood.

However, I have good news.  After the two needed files were safely in place, 
the program acted as if nothing had changed.  I hypothecated that when 
starting with a new HD and a new OS (Windows 7) I must have managed to 
install two copies of DX4WIN.  Indeed, that proved to be the case.  One is 
in what I call the root directory and the other was in with regular 
programs.  I now have a corrected shortcut and things seem to be working.

The big event will be to see what happens when I try to uninstall the 
redundant program and its files.  Perhaps it will be more safe to delete the 
entire folder with the redundant program.

Many times in my life I have been asked to read drafts of papers written by 
others with an eye to finding things obvious to the author that would not be 
clear to the reader.  I just did not identify the link in question and now I 
see that clicking it would not have produced the expected result.

All of us are indebted to you for the critical and useful enhancements that 
you have crafted and then provided.  Thank you.  Warm regards,   Mac   N8TT

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:40 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 3:08 PM, J. C. Mc Laughlin <jcm at power-net.net> 
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.

"the link above" takes you to to the top of the page where it says:

"DX4WIN.CTY #90 was released on 16 January 2011."

"DX4WIN.CTY #90" is highlighted because it is a hyperlink to the download 
page.

The download page says, "Release #90 - 16 January 2011" which again is
a link to the .ZIP file.  I'm sorry this wasn't obvious. I'll try to
re-write it next time so it's more so.


> The need for a matching file was not apparent.

The instructions say, "The archive contains another file, ADIF.PMP.
This file is used to map QSOs in imported and exported ADIF files to
the correct country (this includes eQSL and ARRL Logbook of the
World). Extract the ADIF.PMP file from the archive and save it into
the IMPORT directory."

I'll make it more clear that this is required.  The "archive" is the
.ZIP file previously mentioned.

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


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