Good grief, as Charlie Brown used to say. I have always updated Dxbase annually, I felt I "owed it" to the author to support his activities. Since it was a privately held enterprise I had no way to knowing what others were doing but as I observed on this reflector at the time, it was a Bad Sign when Jack stopped having a booth and demonstrations at Dayton. The cost of the updated program was Trivial compared to the cost of almost every other station accessory and certainly Trivial compared to operating costs, postage, et al.
I'm not very active these days, however, my Dxbase2007 log looks to my eye just as it always did and my QSL card labels have the time just as they always did (I seem to recall the 'ss' thing came about from user requests involving some of the exotic modes)), but my log and QSL labels are in minutes and hours. I didn't do anything special, just imported by previous data into DBX just as I did every year until there stopped being annual updates. Larry W4RA > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Parry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:15 AM > To: 'Wes N7WS'; 'Jack' > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXB2007 Time display > > We discussed this sometime back and came to the idea that this couldn't > be > fixed. I agree that I don't like the time on my QSL cards being > represented > by hhmmss, instead of just hhmm. Seems like this would be a nice > little > tweak on the new version. (It didn't use to do it on the 2005 version.) > It > is clearly a function on DXB2007 because it didn't do it till I > installed > 2007 and everything else is the same. > > Bill W5VX > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:dxbase- > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Wes N7WS > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:03 AM > To: Jack > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXB2007 Time display > > I guess I'm not making my self clear. In my DXB2005, the time in the > on-screen log display is hours and minutes only. In 2007, the seconds > are also displayed. Is this a new "feature"? Furthermore, I copied > the label design that I've been using for years over from 2005 to 2007. > It's printing the time as five digits and an "x". > > There is a step by step writeup complete with pictures in the help > > file that illustrates how to modify the label design for the time > > field to limit the printout to 4 digits. This is located under the > > Label section of the help file under the heading, "How do I". But of > > course you'll need to download the Microsoft .dll that allows viewing > > of the old style ".hlp" help file system. I no longer have the link > > for that file. > I can always use the full-feature help files on my XP machine, but the > patch for Vista, at least the one I have only allows opening one page > at > a time, but no stepping back, etc. > > If there's not a way to change the time back to just hour and minutes, > is there a way to import 2007 logs back into 2005? > > Thanks, > > Wes > > > > Jack > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > 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 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase 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
