At 07:02 PM 6/27/00 -0500, Dale L Martin wrote:
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>I'm curious as to why the FD exchange handling by TRLog is so different from
>the flexibility of SS exchange handling. In SS, you can enter data in just
>about any combination and it will all come out right. In FD, I typed in a
>correction to a typo (e.g, 3a stx 2a) and it wasn't accepted. I had to
>clear the entry and start over (or I could have deleted back to the
>beginning. I had this happen a couple of times. I think I even put in the
>section first once followed by the class and it wouldn't accept it. Was I
>dreaming this or is TRLog not set up to handle variations on a FD exchange?
Nope, it doesn't parse the exchange at all, which is not very elegant. Req
uires spaces between elements too. My guess is that Tree hasn't built a
parser for the exchange because, as the ARRL says, it really isn't a
contest... ;^}
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
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