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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK@ifwtech.co.uk>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] AutoSaveCount
> 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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