I found a better work-around for this:
You need to create a subdirectory that is the same name as the first part
of the portable callsign. In the example below, create the subdirectory K1JB.
Then do the WRITELOG as normal. You will find the Cabrillo output in that
subdirectory, with the second half of the callsign, i.e. VE9.TXT. As
another example, N5KO/6 would generate the Cabrillo file 6.TXT in the N5KO
directory.
This was obvious when I thought about it some more - CT is trying to write
the file named K1JB/VE9.TXT (or to the purist, K1JB\VE9.TXT) Most C
compilers will treat "/" and "\" the same when it comes to opening an file
in DOS. If the subdirectory doesn't exist, CT apparently doesn't give a
warning that it can not open the output file. But if you create the
subdirectory first, the file will be written.
73 - Jim AD1C
[original message]:
There is a bug in CT which has tripped up a couple of people.
If your callsign in CT contains a portable (i.e. K1JB/VE9), CT will be
UNABLE to generate the Cabrillo output file. The output file name is based
on the callsign. In the portable case "/" is a special character to DOS,
and I'm not sure exactly what's happening, but suffice it to say, there
will be NO <CALL>.TXT file.
The work-around is to change your callsign in CT to something else - it
must be from the same country in order to generate the score correctly
(i.e. try VE9XYZ in the above example). Then when you perform WRITELOG,
edit the VE9XYZ.TXT file (Cabrillo log) to change all references from
VE9XYZ to K1JB/VE9 (again following the example).
I hope Ken can fix this problem in due course.
73 - Jim AD1C
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