[WriteLog] Updating country files with Windows 7

[Robert Foster]

Hi Everyone,
 
Problem solved!  In Virtualstore, the wl_cty.dat and associated files must be deleted, then run react32.exe.  Writelog country file is updated!  Many thanks to K4ADR and WS7I, who provided the info!
 
73, Bob, K3QIA


--- On Fri, 1/28/11, k4adr at comcast.net <k4adr at comcast.net> wrote:


From: k4adr at comcast.net <k4adr at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Updating country files with Windows 7
To: "Robert Foster" <rlfoster1 at verizon.net>
Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 12:48 PM



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riteLog] resolution of the wl_cty.dat issue on Vista systems
from [Wayne, W5XD] [Permanent Link][Original] 
To:  <writelog at contesting.com> 
Subject:  [WriteLog] resolution of the wl_cty.dat issue on Vista systems 
From:  "Wayne, W5XD" <w5xd at writelog.com> 
Reply-to:  w5xd at writelog.com 
Date:  Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:57:30 -0000 
List-post:  <writelog at contesting.com">mailto:writelog at contesting.com> 
The problem that I learned is that if you had WL version 10.76 or earlier
installed on Vista and then upgraded WL to a newer version, the documented
way of upgrading your country file data base did not work anymore. I have
not repeated this process on Win7, but I suspect it has the same problem.
The fix is hunt down the following files in Vista's VirtualStore:
        wl_cty.dat dxccdos.dat dxccdosmm.dat dxccwae.dat dxccwaemm.dat
cqzone.dat ituzone.dat
Delete all the above files.
Now run WL's "Convert CTY to WriteLog" from the Windows Start Menu.
Click Download.
When it finishes, click "Convert wl_cty.dat".
When it finishes click Cancel.
Wayne, W5XD
This worked for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Foster" <rlfoster1 at verizon.net>
To: writelog at contesting.com
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:15:18 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Updating country files with Windows 7

Hi WriteLog Users,

I am having a problem updating my country files on my Windows 7, 64 bit computer.  The version of WriteLog I'm using is 10.77H.  I placed the latest downloaded wl_cty.dat into the 
c:/program data/writelog file, then ran reacty32.exe from the location 
c:/program files(x86)/writelog/programs

I then opened WriteLog, and put in GB0PLB, which should show Wales as the country, and it showed England.  Then I tried II0IDP, which should be Sardinia,and it shows Italy.  So I know the file did not update.

I also tried downloading the latest WlWebupdate.zip file.  I unzipped the file contents into the c:/program data/writelog file location, then checked to see if the file updated.  It did not.

I have an older computer running Windows XP, and WriteLog version 10.30B, and it updates the country files very nicely.  So I copied the four files that React32.exe updates from the XP computer: 
DXCCDOS.dat
DXCCWAE.dat
CQZONE.dat
ITUZone.dat

I placed the four files into the location on the Windows 7 computer:
c:/program data/writelog

Still no update!  I tried placing the four files into the location:
c:/program files(x86)/writelog/programs

Still no update of the country files.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks!

73, Bob, K3QIA
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