[Trlog] I used the READ command after ARRL DX Phone and now have four timesas many Qs

[Jim Smith]

Ahh..., humans will find a way to screw up no matter how specific the 
instructions.  The manual says that READ needs to be given a file name 
different than log.dat.  Well, I have never named any of my contest logs 
log.dat.  This one was ARRLPh03.dat.  So that's the name I gave to READ, 
comfortable in the knowledge that I had filled the requirements.  It is 
now obvious that READ needs an input file and an output file.  Perhaps 
the manual could be revised here.  Thanks Tree.

73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO


Tree wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:44:40PM -0800, Jim Smith wrote:
>
>>This hasn't created a problem for me.  I'll just delete all the lines 
>>which got appended.  I did notice that the FM for TO1A didn't get into 
>>the log until the 2nd pass so I'll just stick it in manually where it 
>>belongs.  I've posted this here in case READ got broken somewhere along 
>>the way and no one noticed.  I'm using the 6.73 beta dated (in CTRL-J 
>>list) 13FEB03.
>>
>
>Sounds like you didn't rename your log file to something else and you
>were reading from the same file you were writing to.
>
>Tree
>