[Trlog] File names other than defaults

[Paul Kirley]

VY1JA sed:
>  The directory looks like this:
logback.dat        27k
ss05cw.cfg          1k
ss05cw.dat          1k
ss05cw.rst         29k
ss05cw.tmp         1k


When a configuration file has a name other than the default, output files are renamed accordingly.  In your case,
ss05cw.cfg   is the configuration file
ss05cw.rst   is the restart file
ss05cw.tmp   is the editable-log temporary file
and
ss05cw.dat   ought to be the rest of the log.

When things work properly, answering "yes" to TRLog's shutdown question "Is the contest over?" results in adding the contents of ss05cw.tmp to ss05cw.dat, and deleting the ss05cw.tmp file.  Apparently TRLog thinks that you're still operating in SS.  Are you sure that you told TRLog that the contest was over when you shut down?

Your log data may be spread among ss05cw.dat (a few QSOs), logback.dat (many QSOs) and ss05cw.tmp (the last 5 QSOs).  But the 27k size of logback.dat doesn't look big enough to hold 600 QSOs, which should take up about 50k if my SS log size is any indication.

If you're running "real" DOS, you might try executing the UNDELETE command in the SS directory.  But do that before you run POST or any other programs that might write to the drive, as UNDELETE can only recover what hasn't yet been overwritten.

Good luck with your difficulty.  Sorry that I didn't find you this year.

73, Paul W8TM