Not sure by your post...did you try to add the C:/LOG path yourself directly
to path statement in autoexec.bat, then reboot?
Mike N2MG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Feutz" <feutz@wctc.net>
To: <TRLog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:42 PM
Subject: [TRLog] Adding LOG to autoexec.bat
> TRLoggers,
>
> I just got a used IBM 300PL desktop with WIN 98 and am having trouble
> installing TR.
>
> I off-loaded 6.70zip on a floppy, put it on the IBM, and opened it into
the
> LOG dir. on the C drive with WinZip.
>
> The install seemed normal, and I set up the first contest directory as
> genqso. When I entered the command TR (in a dos window) the TR screen
came
> up normally but the keyboard was dead. The only response I got from the
> IBM was a beep whenever I hit any key.
>
> I closed the dos window and rebooted in dos mode. I then entered the
usual
> path from the dos prompt (log\contests\genqso) and everything seemed
normal
> till I entered the TR command. I then got "bad command or file name".
>
> I entered "path" and got back C:\WINDOWS;c:\windows;c:windows\COMMAND ...
> no C:\LOG.
>
> I then did edit autoexec.bat and there was no path statement on the edit
> screen.
>
> It seems that when I first installed the program, the path=C:\LOG was put
> somewhere that the system could find it, as the TR screen came up
normally,
> but I couldn't do anything (beeps only in response to keystrokes).
>
> After re-booting, the path=C:\LOG apparently was "lost" as the computer
> didn't know what to do with the TR command.
>
> I suspect the IBM has some proprietary command to alter the path
statement,
> since it doesn't show up on the edit autoexec.bat screen.
>
> Hope I have explained this with some degree of clarity.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated. Trying feverishly to get set up for my
> first attempt at SO2R this Sat.
>
> 73,
>
> Ron - WA9IRV
>
>
>
>
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