[CQ-Contest] windows-based contest programs: a question..

[Pete Smith]

N1MM Logger can be navigated very well without a mouse, and has an Enter 
Sends Message (ESM) mode that does TR one better.  Awesome.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 01:24 AM 11/23/2004, k5zm wrote:

>By and large, DOS is dead. But TR rocks.. Hopefully we all know that, too ;)
>However, be it for good or bad, time marches on and Win based logging
>programs will probably become more and more the standard.
>
>Now, before I ask, let me say that I've NEVER used anything but TR and CT.
>The former by choice and preference, the latter because that's what we've
>got @ NQ4I (yes.. I've tried to sell Rick on TR. More than once;) Well,
>there was that one time I used -or tried to use- WriteLog during some now
>forgotten 'test.
>
>At any rate, I do seem to recall that WL was extremely "mouse heavy". By
>that I mean we were always having to dink with the mouse to activate a
>field, etc. Assuming that WL is not alone in it's reliance on a mouse, I
>gotta ask....
>
>WHY??!!!!  Surely the same fields/tasks can be handled by keystokes(??).
>Maybe it's just me going on a prior less than favourable experience and
>perhaps things have changed. But i don't see why an op should have to take a
>hand off of the radio/keyboard/whatever just because he's using a Win based
>program.
>
>OK.. flame away;)
>
>73,
>Ian, K5ZM
>--
>"Uh, this is no offense, but,uh... You are a robot, aren't you?"
>
>
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