[WriteLog] SS .ini

[W. Wright, W5XD]

I think Jerry has described WriteLog's behavior accurately.
In the WriteLog help file there also is a topic named
"Updating Multiplier Lists" that has a bit more detail.

And, as I said in a previous posting, current versions of
WriteLog don't output sanitized Cabrillo, so no matter what
happens to namedmul.ini, WriteLog will output the multiplier
as logged by the operator rather than as converted through
namedmul.ini.

As for putting namedmul.ini on the web, I think the best
bet is put on on writelog.com that is up to date. But I
won't try to stop anyone else from posting a copy--it just
doesn't seem to be the kind of thing that needs duplicates.

If you email me a copy of namedmul.ini, I'll post it.
If you only want to update the entries for one particular
contest, then I can do that, too. Just send me the sections
of the file you want corrected.

Wayne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Pixton
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:19
> To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu; writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] SS .ini
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> Let me start pushing the ball.  I clean up my namedmul.ini 
> before each RTTY 
> contest. I have no problems sharing it with others. Maybe we can 
> incrementally get up to date contest by contest?
> 
> Request for Comments -
> 
> What I have seen wrong with the structure and what I suspect 
> is being used 
> by Writelog to produce the Cabrillo output is the following. 
> The wrong 
> abbreviations are in the "real" part and the proper ones are in the 
> aliases. My algorithm for change has been to put the correct 
> abbreviation 
> e.g. "OR" in the "real" part and then put "ORE" in the 
> aliases. That way I 
> can log what is sent but that points to the correct 
> abbreviations which 
> comes out in the cabrillo output. If what is sent is not in 
> the "real" part 
> or an aliases then that can be fixed after the fact by adding 
> the aliases 
> and rescoring. So if someone sends "NFL" and the report is state, not 
> section, then you have to log NFL and put it in the aliases 
> to point to FL 
> which is a multiplier.
> 
> I have a whole list of these changes that I have been making 
> this year.
> 
> So if my understanding of how the namedmul.ini is used is 
> correct I will 
> make the changes for the Roundup next week and since this 
> file is only 
> 19kbytes long I will put it on my web site.
> 
> Any discussion?? We need to agree on the rules of change. We 
> need a place 
> to store the change for any contest. And then we need a way 
> to merge the 
> changes into a "master" namedmul.ini file.
> 
> 
> Jerry, W6IHG
> 
> 
> At 01:14 PM 12/19/2002 -0800, Jim Reisert wrote:
> >This whole topic has really gotten out of hand.
> >
> >I sent a message to Tree N6TR this morning, hoping to get some 
> >clarification on
> >what the log checking software does.  He gave me two simple 
> rules, and some
> >more commentary (in quotes) as follows:
> >
> >1.  Always log what was sent.
> >2.  Log using abbreviations in the ARRL Section list.
> >
> >"Sometimes, these are in conflict.  Some software will clean 
> up the input from
> >the operator and only log the official abbreviation (I think 
> most do this).
> >Others will log whatever you type in.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >"I would say that any issues with the QTHs not matching the 
> ARRL published 
> >list
> >should be fixed in the software or templates for next year.  
> If you use a
> >program that doesn't clean up the input, then log what was sent.
> >
> >"Please have your software use the official ARRL abbreviations."
> >
> >73 - Jim AD1C
> >
> >
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