[Dx4win] DX4WIN Updates

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:23 PM Dan Violette KI6X wrote:

> I think mine had updated fine.  Can't find a quick way to check version
> installed.  Tried AH2B and came up as Guam (change in new version).  File
> date of country.dat is 10/30/2019, the day I did the update (I don't do
> often but tried when these comments started).

You can't rely on the file date of country.dat - it gets re-written
every time you exit DX4WIN.

Instead, try this.  It has been this way for a long time:

    http://www.country-files.com/contest/#Version

The instructions aren't technically correct for DX4WIN, but the same
principle holds:

    In your logging program, try to log the callsign “VERSION” (on a
DX cluster node, use the SH/H VERSION or SH/SUN VERSION command). Each
version of the country files will return a different country (except
for Win-Test, see #3 below). That country will be indicated in the
release notes for that version.


I need to add this information to this page, but I have not had time:

    http://www.country-files.com/dx4win-info/

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