[Trlog] Rescoring Cabrillo files?

[Richard Ferch]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 at 02:21:16 +0000
alan.kaul at att.net said:


>The problem seemed to be the QSO exchange data (5E for
>example).  WL was looking for this information to be in a category
>called <RCVD> but the conversion software did not have such a
>category and reported the same info in two places (i. e. "number of
>xmtrs," I think called <no_xmtr> in the program's data file, and another
>category -- the name of which I forget -- which I believe was the
>power classification).  It was like sending apples to an orange juice
>machine---it didn't work!

As long as the data is in the file, just labelled wrong, you can fix it 
yourself. If the data is in a field called <no_xmtr> and you want it to be 
in <rcvd>, you just edit the file to change it. ADIF files are ASCII text 
files, so you can edit them with any text editor, but for this task you 
want one with a global replace function. There's one free with every 
version of Windows since Windows 95, called WordPad (don't bother with 
Notepad, it's brain-damaged and can't do this job). There's also one free 
with every version of DOS since, oh, I don't know, maybe 2.0? and it's 
still there in the Windows XP command-line interface. That one's called EDIT.

Make a backup copy of your file in case of finger trouble. Once that's 
done, start up WordPad from the Windows start menu. It's probably located 
under Accessories. Select the File->Open menu. In the dialog box, at the 
bottom is a list box called "Files of type:". Click on the down arrow and 
choose "All files (*.*)". Now find the bad ADIF file and click Open. The 
file will be displayed on the screen. Select the Edit->Replace... menu 
item. You will see two boxes, one labelled "Find what:" and the other 
labelled "Replace with:". Put the tag that is in the file, the one that WL 
doesn't like (no_xmtr), in the top box, and the tag it wants instead (rcvd) 
in the bottom one. Press "Replace all".  Select the File->Save menu item, 
save the file, and exit from WordPad. Try the import again.

EDIT is actually easier to use, although it doesn't look as nice. Open up a 
DOS ("Command Line" in XP) window, change directories until you are in the 
one where the file is stored, and just type the word edit followed by the 
Enter key. The command to open a file is FIle-> Open, the replace function 
is under the Search menu (not Edit), the command to save the file is 
File->Save, and you close the program from File->Exit.

73,
Rich VE3IAY