Re: [WriteLog] AutoSaveCount

["Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK@ifwtech.co.uk>]

George wrote:
> Yes, writelog.ini is the
> heart and soul of WL.  Unfortuantely, the Help documentation for the 
> writelog.ini
> commands is not totally complete, which makes dealing with it even more
> tricky.
>
> I find writelog.ini so important that I even keep a shortcut for it on my
> Desktop.
As from two weeks ago, I now back up writelog.ini as carefully as the 
master station log!

After trying to make some setup "improvements", I had somehow managed to 
get the system into a state where the MP locked onto transmit each time 
WL started up. The Setup Ports menu wouldn't change it, and didn't seem 
to work right any more.

The problem undoubtedly lay in the ini file, but it was very difficult 
to check - and I do know all the ways to look for information (including 
this list, of course - tnx to everyone who made suggestions).

The undocumented lines in the ini file seem to be the ones that you 
shouldn't edit anyhow - they are written by WL for its own information. 
The rule of thumb seems to be: if a line in the ini file is not 
documented in the Help file or in K9JY's pages, then don't touch it!

In case it helps someone else, the cure for my particular problem was to 
un-install everything from the Setup Ports menu, so that WL is 
completely cut off from the rig(s). Then save the ini file (Setup / Save 
Config), close WL, and start up again with a fresh, "blank" contest. 
Then reinstall the rig to the COM port, and build up the configuration 
again in small steps. At each step, save the ini file and also use 
Explorer to copy it to a numbered backup (like 1writelog.ini, 
2writelog.ini, which WL will ignore). In my case, WL came up smiling as 
if nothing had happened.

But if I'd had an ini backup from *before* those would-be 
"improvements", I could have been back on the air in five minutes. 
Lesson learned!



--
73 from Ian G3SEK
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