[TRLog] RE: MS-DOS and TRLog

Gil Baron W0MN gbaron@home.com
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:41:29 -0600


You only have to create a shortcut and then run it. I have never had to set
up any configuration, just use the defaults. You may want to then set the
shortcut properties to run full screen or not, to close on exit or not, but
you do not have to.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James E. Brown [mailto:w4lc@fuse.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:01 PM
> To: Gil Baron W0MN
> Subject: Re: [TRLog] RE: MS-DOS and TRLog
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to run TR from a window instead of having to reboot into true
> DOS, changing directories, etc.  Please give me some details on how you do
> it.  It seems that one must set up a config file with your own parameters,
> and while I can do that in DOS following the instructions in the manual, I
> am not sure about doing it using Windows.
>
> Thanks         Jim          W4LC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gil Baron W0MN <gbaron@home.com>
> To: <punkymcd@pacbell.net>
> Cc: <trlog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 4:12 AM
> Subject: [TRLog] RE: MS-DOS and TRLog
>
>
> >
> > What you are doing will work, but you should not have to do it. TRLOG
> works
> > very well from a dos window. It avoids any configuration problems and
> allows
> > you to do other things also. It is true that WIN98 is probably better at
> > this than Win95 but they both work.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: punkymcd@pacbell.net [mailto:punkymcd@pacbell.net]
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 7:15 PM
> > > To: Gilbert Baron
> > > Cc: punkymcd@pacbell.net; trlog@contesting.com
> > > Subject: 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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