[TRLog] smartdrv not working?

[Pete Smith]

At 05:19 AM 11/29/1999 -0600, Doug wrote:
>
>I've been having an ongoing problem where I'm not able to abort the
>transmission of CW.  A couple of times during the WW, while S&P I'd hit
>the wrong key & start to send the exchange instead of my call.  I'd
>immediately hit the Escape key, but almost the entire exchange would get
>sent before the CW would abort.  ("TU 5NN T", the 4 would get aborted
>about halfway through)  There was also a delay aborting transmission of
>my call or of "TU W9WI" after a run QSO, but those delays wouldn't be as
>bad.  
>
>It seems to be the general consesus (I can never spell that word!) that
>running SMARTDRV is the fix for this -- but it doesn't seem to have any
>effect in my case.  There are no error messages at boot when loading
>it.  
>
>FWIW, version 6.46 (though I have had the same situation with all
>previous versions I can remember) on a 486-66 with 8MB total RAM - no
>radio interface (really need to fix that 940...) or packet running.  

I had the same problem.  Never saw it in earlier versions.  I was running
6.45.  My computer setup is otherwise unchanged from past versions.  My
computer is a 200MHZ Pentium with 32 MB.

73,  Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower

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