[Dx4win] difficulty with big print job (v. 5.01)

[Dan Violette, KI6X]

Pete, I am definitely not an expert in this:  I think there are spool
settings for having the output go directly to the printer bypassing windows
spooler (printer starts/stops the printing as needed).  This does not allow
you to work on your PC during printing, but also does not fill up the
available memory for spooling and lock the PC (trade off).  Might try a
different setting next time.

Dan KI6X

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Subject: [Dx4win] difficulty with big print job (v. 5.01)


Today I printed 914 pages of QSLs -- 4 QSL cards (labels) to a page.
During the print run I had a number of Windows print spooler errors, each
of which told me to restart Windows in order to resume.  I did, and each
time used the print range parameter to minimize duplication as I picked up
where I had left off (e.g., restart at page 414, attempt to print to the
end, made it to page 650, restarted again, etc.).

The last such restart was only about 10 pages before the end of the print
run.  When it completed, and I clicked close, it asked me if I wished to
give today's date as the QSL date and clear the print flags.  I said yes,
and then checked to see how many records had been so marked.  The answer
was 47 (out of some 4500).

Now of course I can just clear all the print flags and call it done, but
that means that 4500 QSOs that should have a QSL date will not.  I thought
that maybe I could print to a file, and after that get another chance to
supply QSL dates for all the QSOs.  The program appeared to be writing to a
file, but when it hit page 914 it simply hung, with the hard disk LED
flashing occasionally.  After an hour or so, I shut it down.

Is there ANY way to mark all the records in 2001 that currently have label
= y with a QSL date, short of actually reprinting them on scrap paper or
something?

Thanks for any suggestions!

73, Pete N4ZR

Sometimes a tower is
just a tower




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[Dx4win] New user with many questions

[Dan Violette, KI6X]

Note a bit of what Jim said indirectly.  The errors reported are not
necessarily telling you they are now wrong, but only that they differ from
the information being imported.  I also had many, many errors, but all that
I remember were correct in DX4WIN.  Mainly the old program used a different
convention for prefixes (say UA9 instead of UA/9, can't remember a real
example right now).  So, the bottom line, the entries may be correct in
DX4WIN and the errors are just a warning that differences exist but not
that their for sure is an error now.

Dan KI6X

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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:55 AM
To: William Hinkle
Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] New user with many questions


At 11:06 PM 1/27/2002 -0500, Bill KV3R wrote:

1. How do I deal with Asiatic Russia Zone errors?

2. Same question for VE Zones?

The program should have done most of these correctly.  The Russian callsign
system is TRICKY, be VERY careful before you over-ride any entities or
zones for these callsigns.  Most of them should be correct by default in
the 5.03 country file (perhaps your old program was wrong!).  There is a
page of callsign exceptions on the DX4WIN web site that may not be in the
database yet.

3. Hawaii calls that are in KY,FL?

4. KG4 calls that are in 4 land not Gitmo?

5. It told me K5K was a State Side call, how do I fix that?

Go to the QSO in question, and tab over to the Prefix field.  Using the F1
key, select the correct entity, and save the QSO record (ENTER or
F10).  All subsequent QSOs with that callsign will now come up as that
entity.

- Jim


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Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
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