[Trlog] Set Up Question

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 07:18:26AM -0800, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:

> > This did work, however I had to delete my "RST" file and let the program 
> > restart in its own creating a new "RST" file. The old one was preventing TR 
> > from counting the mults in the correct (by band) manner. I don't understand 
> > the RST file, and have had to delete it and restart the program again on 
> > occasion for it to include other changes. Perhaps someone can explain what 
> > it does and why this is necessary.
> 
> Tree would of course know all the details, but it's basically a cache that 
> stores things like all the QSO totals, mult totals, settings, etc. so that 
> if you restart in the middle of a contest, the program does not need to 
> rescan the configuration files or (worse) the entire log to get you back
> up and running with all your settings and an accurate score and mults-needed
> display.  If the file is missing, it will rescan the configs and log (and
> rebuild a restart.bin file for next time).  It's value may have been more 
> important in the days of 15MHz 286s than today's very fast processors.

I can't describe it any better than that.  It contains a dupesheet, your
SCP information and initial exchange memory and some other stuff.  I even
think your code speed might be in there.  It gets updated after each logged
QSO.

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