[Trlog] trlog 6.79, Icom 765, Laptop, & Win 98

[Troy Majors]

Need some help on getting this combination to work.  I'm using the Icom
CT-17 interface, 
a Sunrex Laptop (about eight years old), the DOS window in Windows 98, the
IC765, and TR 6.79.
All this was just recently put together.  Can't work a contest yet.  The
problem is: the computer 
will not key CW.  I can change bands with the Alt V and B commands, and the
frequency is 
always accurately displayed in TR,. so some interfacing is taking place, but
no cw keying of 
the transmitter.  It's as if I were in Simulation mode all the time.  I've
tried everything I 
know how to try, with all the various relevant commands, checking the dip
switches in 
the xmtr, setting the baud rate to 1200 etc.,etc. I've jumpered pins 6 & 8
(pins 4 and 5 are 
already jumpered in the CT-17)  to no avail.   I even got out a very old
copy of CT and tried 
it but it won't key the xmtr either.  When running radiodebug, I sometimes
have received 
the message "key or footswitch pressed," but I don't have a footswitch and
the key isn't pressed.  
And I can't read the binary part of the debug file.  Any suggestions???

troy, wi0r