Hi Pete, one thing I can not find in your explanation. Did you shut down your PC or not maybe there is a windows problem ? and restarting can sometimes do wonders !
to play save copy all your DATA files into anothere directory also 73 Guy ON4AOI BAND DECODER and related stuff at http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/banddecoder.shtml DX4WIN soft and related stuff at http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/dx4win.shtml DX4WIN, WRITELOG, WF1B & RITTY CW & RTTY interfaces at http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/keyer.shtml ARSWIN link and related stuff at http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/web7.htm DXTELNET soft and related stuff at http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/dxt.shtml MY SALESPAGE with radioamateur & computer parts http://users.skynet.be/ON4AOI/sale.shtml ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: [Dx4win] Help - weird program crash > Last night, after working ZK1SCQ in the middle of the night, I went back to > bed leaving DX4WIN 5.01 running in the background. This morning, when I > bought it back, there was an error message on the screen about an exception > having occurred. I shut the program down and restarted it. It told me > that a backup file was available, as I'd hoped, so I accepted the chance to > rename it and open it as a log file. > > Here's where the fun began -- as the program opened the log file, I noticed > that it seemed to slow down unusually near the end of the "reading QSOs" > dialogue. Moreover, when it finished, instead of displaying the last QSO, > the QSO screen only showed 0:00 in the time field, 160CW in the band/mode > fields, and 0s in the RST sent and received fields. I figured that perhaps > I had trashed the log file, so I went back and opened the last previous > data file (I keep 3-4 generations in the save subdirectory), and to my > surprise it showed the same thing. Attempting to move through the log file > appears to indicate that then only thing that is accessible through the QSO > window is this empty page with the zeroes. > > It looks like one of two things has happened -- either the program is > corrupted such that it cannot read the log file, or it is actually > corrupting each log file as I open it. In case it's the latter, I am > totally reluctant to open any more files till I figure out what's happening. > > Any ideas? Do I simply need to reinstall DX4WIN? I'd prefer NOT to > install 5.03 because of the printer driver bug that it has which prevents > printing QSLs in landscape format on some HP inkjets. > > Thanks for any help. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > Sometimes a tower is just a tower > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > >
