[WriteLog] WAE and program dying

[Herb Rosenberg]

Scott makes some excellent suggestions here, as I had a guest op report a 
bunch of Writelog error messages, in the middle of a contest, and I have 
never seen that before, and I usually try and remember to kill anything 
else running.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to do this, and cover WIN95, 
WIN98, and WIN NT, as I use all three operating systems here.

THanks.

Herb - KG6OK

herbr@netcom.com

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Scot Herrick wrote:

> 
> 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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