WriteLog
[Top] [All Lists]

[WriteLog] AUTOSAVE - SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SERIOUS CONTESTERS!

To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Subject: [WriteLog] AUTOSAVE - SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SERIOUS CONTESTERS!
From: dick.green@valley.net (Dick Green)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:34:30 -0500
For those of you who may be reluctant to disable AUTOSAVE, remember that WL
journalizes QSOs in a separate ascii file. If WL terminates before the log
is saved, it will automatically prompt you about merging in the journal file
when restarted. In other words, if there's a crash, the most you can lose is
the QSO you were entering at the time of the crash. (Well, not quite: I'm
pretty sure that if there's a crash while WL is writing to the log file it
could be corrupted. However, this a an ever-present danger even if you use
AUTOSAVE. Most applications are vulnerable to this.)

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Preston
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: GW4BLE
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] AUTOSAVE - SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SERIOUS
> CONTESTERS!
>
>
> Remove the AUTOSAVECOUNT statement from the .ini file. That will disable
> the autosave feature.
>
> Jim N6VH
>
>
> GW4BLE wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Clive Whelan GW3NJW wrote :
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Two separate users, one of whom is me, using two versions viz
> > 10.36G and 10.35x have failed to disable autosave by the
> > prescribed method.
> >
> > Surely there is a problem. Wayne?
> >
> > Yes indeed, as a serious competitor in last weekends' CQWW SSB
> Contest it
> > became a *real* annoyance in the later hours of the contest!
> With over 3500
> > contacts in the log the Autosave booting in had the potential
> to s-l-o-w the
> > logging rate.
> >
> > Could some attention be paid to this fault please.  I am
> certainly surprised
> > that few others have mentioned it.  Could it be that the WL
> users don't make
> > that many QSOs to notice?   Prove me wrong someone, please!
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > GW4BLE
> >
> > Contest Cambria - GW7X (http://www.gw7x.org)
> >
> >
> > 01442 297738
> > 07710 055612
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > WriteLog mailing list
> > WriteLog@contesting.com
> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/writelog
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
>


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>