[TRLog] MS-DOS and TRLog

[Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS]

Don,

I have only seen the responses that went through the TRLog reflector,
so I might have missed one or two.

I run TR from a DOS window within Windows-95.  I created a shortcut
icon to represent TR.EXE.  I then played with that icon's properties,
looking at TR both as a full-screen DOS session and a window, but both
run while Windows-95 was booted.  I ended up choosing running TR in a
window so I could do other things on the machine without a reboot and
even see the rest of the desktop in the process.

All defaults in the shortcut icon were taken except I experimented
with the font selection to get what I thought would look good to tired
eyes-hi!

I recently ran a 24-hour operation in the ARRL CW SS, keeping the
system up the entire 30 hour period.  No problems whatsoever.

My machine is an IBM Thinkpad, using a Pentium 75MHz, 24MB of memory
and a 768MB hard drive.  A modest system to say the least.  The
operating system was Windows-95B.  The display was run at 1024x768.

Personally, I would prefer doing this to the means you sketch out in
your email.  Whenever I can stably avoid rebooting to DOS, I do, for
maximum flexibility.  I also don't have to worry about SMARTDRV and
AUTOEXEC.BATs, etc.

Good luck in the contest and 73,

Gary W2CS
Apex, NC



> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of punkymcd@pacbell.net
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 8:15 PM
> To: Gilbert Baron
> Cc: punkymcd@pacbell.net; trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: [TRLog] MS-DOS and TRLog
>
>
>
> Thanks everyone for you inputs re MS-DOS and TRLog
>
> So far for my operation it looks like this:
>
> >From Windows go to "START"
> Clickon "Shut Down"
> Click on "Restart in MS-DOS mode"
> At the dos prompt I change directories to the TR subdirectory
> Type "SMARTDRV"
> Type"TR"
> Select your contest and go to it.
>
> Any comments or pitfalls anyone can see with this?
>
> 73, Don, W6Oa
>
>
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