[Trlog] Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine

[Gene Fuller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: tree at kkn.net 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:47 PM
Subject: Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: trlog at contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 5:37 PM
Subject: Fw: TR LOG on an XP Machine


Hi Tree - 
Thanks for confirming my subscription, but I was just rejected again -"You must be subscribed to post to the TR-Log list". Perhaps I need to wait a while for the machine to catch up. It's just that I'm a bit itchy to get things working.  
Good Luck if you're going for the contest this weekend !
Gene / W2LU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gene Fuller 
To: trlog at contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:51 PM
Subject: TR LOG on an XP Machine


Thanks to Tree's exceedingly gracious help, although I'm scarsely  computer literate, I now have TR LOG for the most part working on my newer XP machine. Using aother older XP machine which happens to have 3.5" drive I transferred the installation information to a flash drive and got it setup on the newer XP. When it came up I went through the contest setup proceedure with a directory of LOG\(8 character program name) . Everything seemed to work right at that point and it seemed to perform all of the normal contest functions including - dupe check, partial calls,bearing/distance, etc. END of, or pause in  contest also seemed ok as long as I dummied in more than a screenfull of contacts (necessary to confirm the ALT-U screen flush).  It seems as though on the old DOS machine the directory chain included "contests" between LOG and contest name. I don't find anything about that in the old instruction book but I tried it anf it made no diffeernce. 

I am now left with two problems that I am aware of -
1.   At the end of my dummie contest, after doing the ALT-X/Y and END of CONTEST/Y It goes to LOG and allows all of the POST programs, but after I close th computer down and then come back, ready to set up a new contest, after I have made and changed directory to LOG\(8 Character NEW Contest name)  I try to enter TR and it just goes to my previous contest screen, not to the contest setup routine. After many tries of slightly different flavors I still go only to the old screen. I conclude that either I'm doing something wrong or there is an XP glich that I need to learn how to handle. I'm hoping that, and quite likely, I'm doing something wrong since everything else seems tro be working OK.
2. In the setup process they want to know what port my radio is on. Unfortunately I have two items that each want a serial port of which there were plenty on the old DOS machine. The newer machine has only one. Is there any such thing as a 9 pin db serial to USB adaptor, or a 9 pin db splitter with a way to keep the addressing straight ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Gene / W2LU