About running DOS programs on Vista: I would not do this.
I would not recommend to use Wintest. It is a disaster to set it up. (I
have a licence, but after 2 trials I went back to N1MM).
Try N1MM, that works out of the box.
73 Henk PA5KT
Dennis Vernacchia schreef:
> Dave,
>
> Save yourself a lot of time in "Computer Hell" and get another laptop that
> has WIN98SE on it
> ( or one U can install WIN98SE )
>
> They are very cheap - $50 to $100 at most
> for one that has CD Reader, 3.5 Floppy, USB port and DB9 for COM1 and DB25
> for LPT1
> and some have PCMCIA slots..
>
> I run radio control on COM1 and do CW keying of transmitter off of LPT1
>
> Compaq 1200 or 1500 or the Toshiba CDT series best and after running contest
> in CTDOS,
> Stay away from IBM and Gateway as they have some other issues to drive you
> nuts.
>
> If you try to use Windows Vista or XP, CTDOS program may not even launch and
> if it does may crash at any time
> and will not be able ot control com ports
>
> If you run CTWIN instead for windows .......has it's own share of bugs
>
> Best to get a old laptop as mentioned above and run CT for DOS
>
> If you have a hankering to be tortured as U are not computer Geek, get
> WIN-TEST
> Windows based program ........as it is the easiest to setup and run as
> opposed to Writelog or N1MM.
> Win-Test has been said to be like CT on steroids
>
> Good Luck and 73,
>
> Dennis N6KI
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Dave Haupt <w8nf@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I ran NAQP using CT10 on a very crusty old laptop. Found a few errors,
>> failed at "fix mine" and then found "fm10". Whew. Problem averted.
>>
>> Then when I uploaded the logs, the robot flagged my other error - although
>> I'd set the laptop's time zone to UTC, I had set the time itself to local,
>> so I was off 7 hours.
>>
>> This time, I had to find out how to deal with it. Had to download CT_TIME
>> on another computer (the laptop has no networking ability), then transfer to
>> the laptop via floppy. Failed...more study, and figure out CT_TIME had a
>> different version for CT10. OK, found that compendium of files and
>> transferred to the laptop the same way...but oops, no, that's not
>> working...the laptop's floppy drive has now failed. I have no way to move
>> data off this laptop now. I can burn a CD and then let the laptop read it -
>> but the CD drive in the laptop is not a burner. I attempted to add a
>> network card to the machine, and it starts asking for Windows 95 disks - it
>> refuses to search for files on the W95 CD (which is how I loaded W95 on the
>> machine). So I think I'm dead in the water with respect to that laptop.
>> It's toast.
>>
>> So...somewhere in this process, I DID manage to save a copy of the *.bin
>> file to a floppy and I CAN load that onto another computer. The most
>> "available" machines I have, though are a Core2duo running Vista x64, and a
>> G4 vintage Mac. I'm guessing the Mac is silly to even think about. How
>> about Vista x64?
>>
>> I suppose the FINAL backup method would be to load the Cabrillo file (yep,
>> I managed to get that onto the floppy, too), get the data over into Excel,
>> do some math on all the QSO times, then have Excel re-format into
>> Cabrillo-equivalent *.txt and kiss my CT DOS days good bye.
>>
>> But it would be nice not to have to do the Excel work.
>>
>> If it isn't obvious from all the above, I do not enjoy time spent in front
>> of a screen....I'm no computer wiz!
>>
>> TNX ES 73,
>>
>> Dave W8NF
>>
>>
--
Henk Remijn PA5KT
email: pa5kt@remijn.net
www: www.remijn.net
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