The limitations of the Cabrillo format were actually part of the design
requirement by ARRL. They wanted a flat file format that any novice
programmer could generate.
If the goal was to create a highly flexible file format, they would have
done some kind of self describing file format (using XML, similar to ADIF)
so that one format could be used for any contest. That was deemed to be too
hard for everyone to handle (I wonder what kind of people they think write
logging programs?!).
So we end up with a fixed format that is specific to each contest. De facto
"standards" are always difficult to replace. ;)
Randy, K5ZD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Mel Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 13:26 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] RE: Cabrillo
>
>
> Just a thought... maybe the various programs should NOT output
> Cabrillo... just ADIF, with an perhaps a field for the Cabrillo
> header... then we would all need *one* ADIF to Cabrillo convertor... a
> lot more efficient then every programmer duplicating the same effort...
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