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Subject: Missing Floppy Re-Boot
From: n0dh@comtch.iea.com (Dave Henderson, (Nawvemburr Zeeero Dawg House))
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 08:59:30 -0700
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I've been burnt enough times by this one, so I have a suggestion for a future 
release.

When you set TRLOG to make periodic backups of your log file to a floppy 
(FLOPPY FILE SAVE NAME = 
A:\BCKUPLOG.DAT ) and you forget to put a floppy in the drive (I know ! I 
know!). The program 
shuts down and does an imeadiate reboot of the system. Talk about panic, this 
does however do 
great things for an already rising adrenalin level 10 or 15 QSO's into the 
contest, maybe there's 
a way to have this happen at 3AM when your about to fall asleep at the 
keyboard!!!

Could you just "trap" this error and give us an error message on the screen? 
Something that says 
"Duhhhh...bonehead you forgot to put a floppy in A drive, you want a 2nd chance 
Y/N", would be 
appropriate. This would give you a Y/N choice to retry while you collect your 
wits, change your 
underwear and push the floppy into the drive.

Otherwise "I Love This Program" ..keep up the good work.

Dave
N0DH/7

PS: After "testing" this thing for a year, where do I send my "lifetime 
subscription" to you or 
george?

PPS: The 5.7 release of the manual is a big improvement over the 5.5 manual.

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