[TRLog] Stupid question

[Mark Beckwith]

I did notice that the bad code (no offense Tree!) appeared to be happening
during disk writes.  I will test this out later today and report back.  Thanks
Dave.

Mark

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
>Behalf Of David O Hachadorian
>Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:36 AM
>To: trlog@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TRLog] Stupid question
>
>
>
>I don't know whether this will cure your problem or not, but
>whenever running TR in DOS, I always enable disk write-caching.
>Before starting TR, at the dos prompt, type:
>LOADHIGH SMARTDRV C+
>
>This reduces the priority of disk-writing operations to the C
>drive, allowing other real time i/o to proceed more smoothly.
>
>NOTE: The TR manual advises against this procedure, and some
>people have reported problems, but I find it essential on my
>old clunker machine and other machines where I have
>operated as a guest.
>
>Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>Yuma, AZ
>K6LL@juno.com
>
>On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:36:39 -0600 Mark Beckwith <swca@swbell.net>
>writes:
>>
>> Hi you all.  Sorry for asking a stupid question which I am sure has
>> already been
>> answered here before, but I haven't been paying close enough
>> attention.
>>
>> I just set up a new computer (Pentium-75 with Windows 98 on it) for
>> the radio
>> station, and made myself a "DOS Disk" from within Windows 98.  When
>> I boot this
>> computer with this disk, it says something like "Windows 98" and
>> below it says
>> "C:>"
>>
>> When I use TRlog, the CW is distorted in the first characters sent
>> of the
>> exchange (i.e. this is SS, so the number 1 comes out sounding like
>> "di-daahhhhhh-dah-dah-dah"  instead of "di-dah-dah-dah-dah") and the
>> 73 message
>> (the "TU" does not sound perfect).
>>
>> The quick cliff-notes answer please?
>>
>> Mark, N5OT
>>
>>
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