Crashing is bad. I'll add a check so the program doesn't crash if this occurs (badly-formed ADIF freq. field).
- Jim On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Randy Farmer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On the web is a free adif program (editor/converter) called ADIFMASTER >>- You can open your adif file with that prg and check if names,fields are >>correct > > Which brings up an interesting experience I just had with ADIFMASTER. > It's a really useful tool for looking at and editing ADIF files, but > I found that after I did an edit and saved the modified file the new > file would crash AD1C's ADIF2DXQ program. After about an hour of hair > pulling I looked closely at the modified file and found that it had > converted all the decimal points in the frequency field values to > European standard commas. This blew the software's mind. The fix was > easy; I just did a global search and replace in WordPad to change the > commas back to periods. > > A word to the wise. > > 73... > Randy, W8FN -- Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
