[GE] S825 Software Problem Solved

[Geoff Fors]

Thanks to the kind assistance of Mark Cobbeldick, I was able to solve the
S825 Ver. 3.0 software problem I was having regarding the "HELP" screens not
working.

It turns out that the problem comes from the way the DOS directory structure
is created.  Both versions 3.0 and 4.0 expect to find a subdirectory labeled
/HELP, when they need to provide a help screen after you press F9.  The Ver
3.0 .zip file I have, and the Ver. 3.0 zip files which were once on
RadTek.ws and some foreign websites as downloads, do not create a HELP
subdirectory when they are unzipped.  Instead, they just unzip everything to
the main directory.

Therefore, if you have this problem, you need to create the HELP
subdirectory and put all the files which end with a .hlp extension into it.
For example, if you have your S825 software in a directory labeled S825, you
would need to make a subdirectory named C:/S825/HELP using the DOS "mkdir"
command.  At the moment, the simplest way of doing this looks like it would
be to unzip the whole Ver 3.0 software to C:/S825/HELP  (it probably isn't
even necessary to delete any files not ending in .hlp.)  Then go back and
unzip the whole software again to just C:/S825 .  An alternative would be to
move the files not ending in .hlp from the HELP subdirectory into the main
directory ( C:/S825 ) or the reverse, moving all the files with .hlp
extensions from the main directory into the C:/S825/HELP directory.

I am not particularly skilled in DOS commands so someone will probably have
an even simpler suggestion, but if you run across the same problem I did,
the reason is because the help screens have not been put into a /HELP
subdirectory.

Geoff
WB6NVH