[ct-user] Carrillo File Format 9.65

[Gary Yantis]

Ken,

Trust me -- it's .txt.  But don't take my word for it -- send an e-mail to
the contest department at ARRL.  I know the CQ contest people have put out
several e-mails telling everyone to stop using .all and .log extensions.
Not a big deal I'm sure as long as the file is in Cabrillo format.  They
should be able to handle any file extension as long as it is ASCII and in
Cabrillo format.  You could call it callsign.xyz as long as it is a Cabrillo
ASCII text file and they have their software set to recognize and accept
.xyz as a Cabrillo ASCII text file.   But they don't want the OLD style
xxx.log files because those were not Cabrillo format.  They want the file
extension to be .txt to avoid confusion with the old .log files they will no
longer accept.

Correct on DOS and Windows not accepting / as part of a file name.  What I
was saying was that CT had a problem of generating absolutely no .txt file
at all if the call was like w0tm/6.  Since DOS didn't know what to do with
the / it rolled over and played dead.  Ken Wolff fixed that by having CT
ignore / should that be part of your call sign.  So now it generates the
Cabrillo .txt file OK but it leaves off the /xx.  So w0tm/6 in CT generates
a w0tm.txt file.

Gary, W0TM

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ct-user@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-ct-user@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ken Kopp
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 5:05 PM
To: gyantis@midtec.com
Cc: CT-USER@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [ct-user] Carrillo File Format 9.65



Gary,

My read of http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html

is that even the Cabrillo file should have a "log" extension.

Further, the Cabrillo FAQ http://loja.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/faq.txt states
in question 3.4:
Experience indicates that a filename like CALLSIGN.LOG (where CALLSIGN is
the call sign used during the contest) is the most effective name for the
contest sponsors.

As far as filenames go, it is a dos/windows rule that prohibits the use of
"/" in a filename.  Same for \ : * ? " < > |.  Its not something that can
be fixed in CT...its not a CT issue.

73,
Ken


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