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Subject: [TRLog] TRLog and serial ports, 2
From: jimsmith@shaw.ca (Jim Smith)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 00:54:58 -0800
Hi Pete,

Would an internet system clock resetting program such as Dimension 4 
take care of this particular problem?

BTW I'm so tuned into call signs that this is the first time that I 
noticed that we share the same last name!

73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO


Pete Smith wrote:

>
>
> Another thing to pay attention to when running TR is a DOS window -- 
> make sure the system clock is keeping good time.  I have discovered, 
> for example, that with my new Athlon machine under 98SE, switching a 
> mechanical KVM switch to move keyboard, mouse and monitor to another 
> computer, and then moving back, will sometimes corrupt the timekeeping 
> of the OS.  This manifests as a loss of time varying from a few 
> seconds an hour to hundreds of seconds an hour.  Moreover, the loss of 
> time continues even after keyboard, mouse and monitor are back on the 
> affected computer, until you reboot, at which point things are dead 
> accurate again.    Curiously, this does not happen with the second, 
> slower computer -- it stays right on time.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Sometimes a tower is just a tower




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