Further to my Wish List Item 8 I have prepared a table showing the keep-alive capabilities of many logging programs including DXBase2003 at http://dxspots.com.
Ron N5IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:07 AM Subject: [DXBase] Wish List Item 8 > Besides adding a keep-alive for packet connections (that was Wish List Item > 6) consider the following: > > 1) Do not issue the "Keep Alive Message Sent" line. This doubles the amount > of space taken up by keep-alives which are already too cluttering. > > 2) Issue the keep alive message (CarriageReturn-LineFeed) only when it is > needed, i.e. only after keep-alive time has passed since the last input line > from the cluster. If DX spots are more frequent than the keep alive-time, > no keep alive-need be issued. > > 3) If you wish to be very advanced...then write the incoming prompt (in > response to the keep-alive transmission) on top of the previous prompt, thus > reducing the clutter to an absolute minimum while still providing an > indication it is running...which can be seen from the fresh time/date stamp > in the cluster prompt. > > Ron Stordahl N5IN > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
