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Subject: [Trlog] Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine
From: "Gene Fuller" <w2lu@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:27:03 -0500
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: tree@kkn.net 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:47 PM
Subject: Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: trlog@contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:37 PM
Subject: Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine


Hi Tree - 
Thanks for confirming my subscription, but I was just rejected again -"You must 
be subscribed to post to the TR-Log list". Perhaps I need to wait a while for 
the machine to catch up. It's just that I'm a bit itchy to get things working.  
Good Luck if you're going for the contest this weekend !
Gene / W2LU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: trlog@contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:51 PM
Subject: TR LOG on an XP Machine


Thanks to Tree's exceedingly gracious help, although I'm scarsely  computer 
literate, I now have TR LOG for the most part working on my newer XP machine. 
Using aother older XP machine which happens to have 3.5" drive I transferred 
the installation information to a flash drive and got it setup on the newer XP. 
When it came up I went through the contest setup proceedure with a directory of 
LOG\(8 character program name) . Everything seemed to work right at that point 
and it seemed to perform all of the normal contest functions including - dupe 
check, partial calls,bearing/distance, etc. END of, or pause in  contest also 
seemed ok as long as I dummied in more than a screenfull of contacts (necessary 
to confirm the ALT-U screen flush).  It seems as though on the old DOS machine 
the directory chain included "contests" between LOG and contest name. I don't 
find anything about that in the old instruction book but I tried it anf it made 
no diffeernce. 

I am now left with two problems that I am aware of -
1.   At the end of my dummie contest, after doing the ALT-X/Y and END of 
CONTEST/Y It goes to LOG and allows all of the POST programs, but after I close 
th computer down and then come back, ready to set up a new contest, after I 
have made and changed directory to LOG\(8 Character NEW Contest name)  I try to 
enter TR and it just goes to my previous contest screen, not to the contest 
setup routine. After many tries of slightly different flavors I still go only 
to the old screen. I conclude that either I'm doing something wrong or there is 
an XP glich that I need to learn how to handle. I'm hoping that, and quite 
likely, I'm doing something wrong since everything else seems tro be working OK.
2. In the setup process they want to know what port my radio is on. 
Unfortunately I have two items that each want a serial port of which there were 
plenty on the old DOS machine. The newer machine has only one. Is there any 
such thing as a 9 pin db serial to USB adaptor, or a 9 pin db splitter with a 
way to keep the addressing straight ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Gene / W2LU
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