[WriteLog] WAE and program dying

[Scot Herrick]

Hi Roger,

Someone else needs to respond to where the error files are located.

In my experience over the last year or year and a half on WriteLog, I have
found it to be extremely reliable from an uptime viewpoint. Whenever I have
had problems on the program erroring out, it is almost invariably in
conflict with something else Windows is doing with another program running
from Startup.

There are notes on some in the help files, but in my case - and I would urge
others to look hard at this too - you are better off minimizing the number
startup programs you have running all the time when you boot up Windows. In
my case, the culprits were Norton utility programs (the suite) that monitor
my machine to keep it safe - which caused crashes while contesting, so
'keeping my machine safe' is an oxymoron... Once I had done this, I've never
had a crash on the program.

Instead of having the programs you may want in the Startup folder, if you
want them during the contest, open them up from the program rather than
having them load automatically from the Startup file. Even without all those
little icons in the task bar associated with the Startup folder, it's still
amazing the number of programs running in the background.

Anyone have a way of optioning what goes in the Startup folder? I'd like to
have one for contesting and another for normal work. Let's see...in DOS they
were called batch files...not that I want to go back to DOS, but it was a
useful little thing to have...

CU...Scot, K9JY

PS Thanks to all for the address of the Sound Card checker program!

mailto:scot@k9jy.com
www.k9jy.com



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
[mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Roger Marrotte @
Mediaone
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:58 PM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] WAE and program dying



I'm using Writelog for the first time in a contest: WAE.  Radio is Kenwood
TS-870S. Computer is PII-266 running Windows 2000.  Am using rig control on
COM1.  All was working fine, I had been in the contest for about 10 hours,
when the program died while entering a QSO. I think I was just moving to the
next field by hitting the tab key.  The program died a second time about an
hour later while entering a QSO, this time when hitting the OK button after
doing QTCs.  In both instances I received an error message that said
something about Writelog generating errors and that an errorlog file was
being generated.  I hope this doesn't happed too often.  Also does anyone
know where to find the error log file.  I can't seem to.

Roger, W1EM


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