Thomas, I suspect the issue you are having is the result of the escape character. Since the ESC character is defined as a standard windows command character, we could not use this character without interfering with Windows standards. Therefore, we substituted the tilda character. Below is an excerpt from the DXbase help file:
Hope this helps, Courtney 3. To send a control character to your TNC, click inside the packet transmit window and type the control character. Any text already present will be automatically erased and the control character will be sent to the TNC. 4. To send an ESC character to your TNC, DXbase has implemented a substitute character called the tilda ( ~ ). This is necessary because Windows uses the ESC character for Windows. So, if you need to send an escape character ( ESC ) use the ~ ( TILDA ) character instead. Copyright ©1999 - 2002 Scientific Solutions, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Wrede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:11 PM Subject: [DXBase] Help: DXBase and TNC with WA8DED Firmware > After comparing various professional logging programs I finally bought > DXBase at Dayton 2002. Unfortunately I didn't ask about the TNC > interface as I had never any problem with any of the other programs. > > I am using a TNC with "The Firmware", a WA8DED compatible firmware which > is very common in Germany because of its DAMA compatibility. > > To initialize the TNC I need to send the following macro: > > ESC I DF2OO (to set my callsign) > ESC T12 (to set the tx-delay) > ESC S1 (to set the port to No1) > ESC C DB0SAB (my packet node) > C DB0TRI-7 (my cluster to which the node software will connect me > automatically) > > In Logger and in DX4WIN in took me less than 5 minutes to create this > macro and get connected to the packet cluster. No such luck with DXBase. > Apparently I cannot create such macro and if I try to send the commands > manually in the packet window using the 'tilda' the whole programmes > gets hung up (Not responding)after the first or second command. > > The packet window receive the init message after switch-on of the TNC > without any problem but apparently sending anything to the TNC cause > DXBase to hang up. All other programmes on the same PC work without any > problem. I am using Windows 98 on a Pentium II PC. Serial speed is 19200 > baud. > > If I use Logger to start the cluster, then close Logger and start DXBase > I get all cluster messages. But ideally I want to delete Logger from > my harddisk (although for free it's a great programme but it lacks the > features I get from DXBase). > > Any hints are appreciated. > > 73s Tom DF2OO > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
