RV: [WriteLog] Re: [RTTY] New master files

[Tom Homewood]

Hi Don,

Thanks for your reply. I knew I wasn't crazy. I work Aldo alot and so it was
noticable that his name didn't show up.

It took me some time to find the exact call too, but wanted to try and put a
dimension on the problem.

I had previously deleted a bunch of calls to try and get the size down. It
should be an easy question for the programmers to answer.

73, Tom, W1TO


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Cassel" <doncassel at compuserve.com>
To: "Tom Homewood" <w1to at adelphia.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: RV: [WriteLog] Re: [RTTY] New master files


> Tom,
>
> My report was in the archives but has disappeared. Here is a copy. Not a
> solution but we both have the same problem.
>
>
> ---------
>
> I too have noticed in the past and again in this contest that not all
names
> have appeared even though I know they are in my friends.ini file. After
> seeing this and other posts I did some testing with calls in the file
using
> the latest file that was circulated this weekend. Calls at the beginning
of
> the file always presented the name using %H in my message. Calls at the
end
> of the file did not present names.
>
> It took some time but I found that KB5MZ would send Bill as it should but
> the next call KB5R sent only W and not Walt. This is less than halfway
> through the Friends file. I suspect that only a certain amount of the file
> can fit into memory and this was the end point on my system. I'm not sure
> what method is being used to allocate memory for friends and therefore it
> might depend on your hardware and the systems resources in use at the time
> WL is launched.
>
> The only solution would appear to be to edit the file down to a length
that
> works. For me that would mean removing roughly 2/3 of the existing
entries.
>
> BTW, during the contest I noticed some exchanges where a name was included
> but when my turn came my name was not. VE's and YV's come way down the
list
> which could explain the problem with YV5AAX.
>
> 73,
> Don VE3XD
>