[WriteLog] Autosave

[Alan C. Zack]

CT saves to your hard drive after every QSO and to your A drive every hour
and on quitting without any "SAVE AS" switching around commands.  I did not
realize that WRITELOG cannot do the same.

"Bruce A. King" wrote:
> 
> Good morning.
> 
> The quick answer is "you can't". Autosave does just that, it's like hitting
> CTRL/S. Any new entries get saved to the currently open file e.g. CQWW CW
> 2001.wl
> 
> That said, there are a couple of things that come to mind. First, I would
> think that what you are trying to accomplish is slipping a copy of the file
> off to a "safe" place during the contest. If you "save as" and specify the
> a: drive, you can do this. BUT remember to immediately do a "save as" to the
> normal path or you will wind up logging all your QSO's to your floppy drive.
> The other minor problem is that to do the second "save as" you have to
> remember where your original log was in the first place. That usually also
> requires typing a good sized string into the appropriate entry window, prone
> to errors during the heat of battle. If you are running Windows 98, you can
> set up a "SUBST" string so that the file on the hard drive has a shortcut
> name of say drive H. Then the "save as" keying becomes either save as
> A:\filename or H:\filename. Still awkward, but worked fine for us on Field
> Day when non Writelog proficient ops were on duty.
> 
> A better solution if you can do it, is to set up a second computer on a
> network. Then the second computer will have a copy of the log available at
> all times. If the second computer can be also located at the operating
> position (laptop), you can also use it to display secondary windows like run
> rate, score summary, Geoclock, packet window etc.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 73 Bruce W1CSM
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ak0a" <ak0a@kc.rr.com>
> To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:32 AM
> Subject: [WriteLog] Autosave
> 
> > If I want to save the log to Disk (a:\) after 20 qso's, what do I type
> into
> > the .ini file for it to do that?
> >
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