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[PaulKB8N@aol.com]

Tree, is it possible to make this a menu option, it would simply be a DOS 
edit command?

In a message dated 2/20/01 10:40:49 Central Standard Time, n0ss@earthlink.net 
writes:

<< LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\SMARTDRV.EXE a+ c+
 
 This should be all that's required to rectify your problem.
 
 TRLog's message CW sending routine is halted during the time that the PC is 
 writing to the diskette.
 
 This problem usually doesn't show up until you have a fairly large number 
 of Q's in the log, so it takes a while to write the log. But adding the 
 above line will cache the output and return control to TRLog almost 
 immediately.
 
 The first year I operated from Belize (V31TP) in the ARRL DX CW, was also 
 the first year we'd used TRLog in a high-rate contest, and when we got to 
 2K Q's we really started noticing that the delay during diskette wrotes was 
 becoming a BIG problem... and an even BIGGER problem once we reached >4K Q's.
 
 The NEXT year, on the suggestion of K6LL, we added the above line to the 
 AUTOEXEC.BAT file and never(!) EVER noticed when the log data were being 
 backed up to diskatte... it was completely seamless.
  >>


Paul Schaffenberger
210-493-6265
210-326-8450 (Cell)

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