[Dx4win] "An exception occurred! Fixed column count must be less than column count."

[Andreas Junge]

Lee,

let me check on all. 

Well, welcome to the NU club :-)

73,

Andreas, N6NU

On Dec 25, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Lee Hallin wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>  
> Some questions:
>  
> 1) Do you get the error when invoking DX4WIN or after you select a log file?
>  
> 2) If #1 is at invocation, then rename the log file it is trying to open to something else; with a .DXL extension.
>     Then try invoking DX4WIN again.  It may (will probably) give an error saying it can't find the [most recently used] log file.  Specify a new log file name and see if it opens.  If it does then I would say the rename'd log file is corrupt some how.  If so, send me (not the list) an email and we can go from there.
>  
> 3) If #2 did not enable you to open DX4WIN, it sounds like it may be a DX4WIN installation issue.  Perhaps re-install DX4WIN but specify a DIFFERENT directory to have it install to.  Then invoke DX4WIN from that location and see what happens.
>  
> 4) If #3 works (you can run DX4WIN from the new location), try copying the "bad" .DXL file from the old location to the "SAVE" directory under the new DX4WIN home.  Then try to open it with the new DX4WIN.  If it opens OK, then the "bad" .DXL is not bad; something in the original DX4WIN is not right.
> If the "bad" file gives the same error as the original DX4WIN, then it appears to me that the "bad" .DXL file got corrupted some how.
>  
> I am not a DX4WIN guru so others may have better ideas.
>  
> 73, Lee  N7NU
>  
> P.S.  I like your call :-)
> 
> >>> Andreas Junge <andreas at n6nu.org> 12/23/2012 6:18 AM >>>
> 
> I need help from the brain trust of this group :-)
> 
> I am trying to help out my neighbor W6OAT. He ran into the following:
> 
> " Recently, when I open the program, I get a message saying "An exception occurred! Fixed column count must be less than column count."  I can't find any reference to column count anywhere in the DX4WIN users manual.  Has anybody else encountered this problem and do you know how to fix it?"
> 
> Could this be a problem with a corrupted log file?
> 
> 73,  
> 
> Andreas, N6NU
> Redwood City, CA
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