[Trlog] Leaving TRLog -- Not

[Pete Smith]

Coincident with Guy's starting the thread about the demise of TRLog on the 
TR Reflector, I was asking people on the Writelog reflector who had 
switched from TR what they thought about the transition.  Thanks to 
everyone who replied to me.

I have decided not to switch.  Following are my reasons, in rough order of 
importance.

1.  My current setup works.  I run TR on a dedicated 200 MHz 
Pentium.  Recording of contests is done with RecAll Pro on a second 
computer, which I also use for all other work (it is an Athlon 1700+).  I'm 
lazy too, Dave.

2.  I have no machine- or OS-based problems with TR, whether run under DOS 
or in a window under Win98SE.  I do usually take the precaution of shutting 
down background tasks other than Explorer and Systray, when running in a 
window, but am not sure I need to do that -- using the parameters that K6LL 
suggested for the DOS window a few weeks back, I had no slurred CW or other 
anomalies in the recent Sprint.

3.  It seems that the only thing Writelog has and TR doesn't, that matters 
to me, is the much greater flexibility and legibility of the Windows 
display scheme.  I could care less about CW decoding, MMTTY support for 
RTTY, etc.  Granted that porting TR to Windows might solve many of the 
problems that Guy points to, it's an awfully big job.

4.  Writelog lacks too many of the things that I have come to love about TR 
-- particularly the integrated paddle keyer, ability to correct a call-sign 
in the exchange field, parsing of exchanges (see SS), optimum support for 
the CW Sprint, and Auto S&P enable.

5.  I love TR's support, the general lack of bugginess in new releases (try 
reading the CT-User reflector for a while!), and Ron's willingness to try 
new things.  Maybe this will extend to meeting some of the networking 
issues Guy points out, even though those are of no concern to me.

So that's it -- thanks for all the input, and thanks for reading this.

73, Pete N4ZR
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