The single best advice I can give with regards to networking and Writelog is to
NEVER try to mix operating systems -- get every box on the same OS (whatever it
is -- Win98, Win2k or XP) and your life will be a lot more pleasant.
I've spent more than a few hours trying to get Win98 and WinXP and Win2k to all
cooperate in WriteLog and have been largely unsuccessful. And I'm a
professional Windows programmer to boot so you'd think if it was "doable", I'd
be able to do it. (Of course, maybe I'm not a very good professional
programmer...)
While I'm certain it's never going to happen, all of this networking hooey
would go away if WriteLog would simply use straight TCP/IP for communication
between machines and between portions of WriteLog instead of relying on the
(very old, very outdated) NetworkDDE service to do the job.
-Marty NW0L
--- Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier@comcast.net> wrote:
> I have done 4 writelog installations at multi operator
> events and I have only failed once: this last weekend.
> We had two Windows 98 computers and two Windows XP
> computers. Nothing I could think of doing would end
> in any result other than connection to N4HY lost
> (as one example). I used Help, I used online instructions,
> nothing worked. The installations on the computer were
> all legal installations, owned by the computer owners
> who brought their computers. In every case, I upgraded
> them online with their legal copies being updated to
> the latest version.
>
> The VHF Sweepstakes module worked beautifully. We are
> going to be able to merge the logs from the four stations
> easily but the lack of ability to instantly look to see
> if a station had been worked on all bands and lack of
> gab to pass stations between positions that were in
> different rooms, especially when the 6 meter operator
> had COPD and could not get out of his chair, resulted
> in my opinion, in a serious loss of score. I take
> full blame for not getting this done well in advance.
>
> What I am looking for is a concise, step by step instruction
> of doing the networking that has constant comments along the
> lines of:
>
>
> IF YOU SEE THIS CONDITION, HERE IS THE FIX.
>
>
>
> Is there such a treatise and if so where do I find it?
>
> Bob N4HY
>
>
>
>
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