[Trlog] Editing Woes

[Tom Hammond]

You can always use WordPad, which is usually also available as part of the 
wondows OS distribution package. It shold be more robust.

73,

Tom   N0SS

At 09:54 PM 7/10/04, LRod at pobox.com wrote:

> > Perhaps due to only a few hours of sleep before I got back up at 5AM local
> > to play IARU a bit, since my rig control no longer works, I forgot to
> > manually switch bands to 40m.
> >
> > So, about 75 QSOs from the 1st hour are on the wrong band ;-(
> >
> > I tried editing the .tmp & .log files via Notepad & saving, but it doesn't
> > appear to change anything & my Dupe-Control is whacked now on 20m.
> >
> > Is there another way to solve the problem *without* existing TR...to make
> > the band changes so I won't get a lot of "QSO B4 OMs" ???
>
>I have found that even though NotePad will edit medium large files, it 
>won't do
>a search-and-replace (if that's what you did) for as large a file; it'll 
>quit after a
>couple of hundred lines or so. And it gives no indication that it failed to
>complete the operation.
>
>One recommendation I would make is to do a search for NotePad+ (free
>download) which is much more robust and flexible than NotePad. I have also
>found EditPad the same way (and also available in a free version) and it, 
>to is
>much more robust and flexible than the original NotePad. I now use it for 
>all of
>my HTML editing for my website.
>
>
>73, Rod K4QG
>
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